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Airspace sectorisation via a weighted graph model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2016

D.F. Zhang and
Y.Z. chen
D.F. Zhang*
Affiliation:
School of Electronic Information and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
Y.Z. chen*
Affiliation:
School of Electronic Information and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
*
defuzhang@emails.bjut.edu.cn
yzchen@bjut.edu.cn
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With the development of air traffic, flight delays happen frequently due to bad weather and traffic congestion. The problem can be solved partly by certain strategies, such as changing air routes. However, rerouting leads to a global imbalance in controller workload of current sectors and to an increase in co-ordination workload, and the workloads of some sectors may be beyond the controller’s ability to manage. Thus, airspace sectorisation is expected to migrate from the current static sectors to dynamically-changing ones capable of adapting to traffic demand. Besides addressing imbalance and controlling the increase in workload, the sectorisation has to meet additional geometric constraints such as convexity, connectivity, and minimum distance constraint.

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Technical Note
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 118 , Issue 1201 , March 2014, pp. 267 - 274
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2014 

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