Optimization of aicraft trajectories in North Atlantic oceanic airspace

• Main Authors: Rodionova, Olga, Sbihi, Mohammed, Delahaye, Daniel, Mongeau, Marcel
• Other Authors: ENAC - Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Informatique et Automatique pour l'Aérien (MAIAA), Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC), ENAC Equipe MAIAA-OPTIM (MAIA-OPTIM), Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC)-Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: aircraft trajectory optimization; North Atlantic oceanic airspace (NAT); automatic dependent surveillance; broadcast (ADS-B); simulated annealing; [MATH.MATH-OC]Mathematics [math]/Optimization and Control [math.OC]; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal-enac.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00938895; https://hal-enac.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00938895/document; https://hal-enac.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00938895/file/591.pdf

International audience Air traffic control in non-radar oceanic airspace has always been relatively limited. Current American and European projects aim at transiting from ground-based systems to satellite-based systems. New technologies will allow to reduce significantly the present aircraft separation standards. As a consequence, the aircraft crossing the North Atlantic will be able to follow better routes, which will improve the air traffic situation by decreasing of flight durations and congestion in pre-oceanic continental airspace. In this paper an optimization model is introduced and a simple methodology to solve this problem is proposed that yields encouraging preliminary results.