摘要: |
The D10 – Dallas-Fort Worth Terminal Radar Approach CONtrol (TRACON) is an air
traffic facility that controls and manages aircraft and airspace that consists of multiple
airports located in the North Texas area. From an air traffic management standpoint, one of
the main challenges in the D10 TRACON is the departure fix capacity as multiple airports
compete for resources. This problem is magnified when en route demand/capacity imbalance
and inclement weather around the TRACON reduce the capacity at the terminal fixes. This
leads to multiple, dynamic Traffic Management Initiative (TMI) restrictions being issued by
the Air Traffic Control (ATC) on departing flights. This, in turn, propagates delay to the
surface of each airport within the metroplex. The NASA Airspace Technology Demonstration
2 (ATD-2) Phase 3 is deployed in D10 to demonstrate new technologies developed to manage
the Integrated Arrival, Departure, and Surface (IADS) traffic in a metroplex environment
where multiple airports are interacting and sharing resources at the terminal boundary. This
paper uses the ATD-2 terminal restriction data collected in the D10 TRACON to quantify the
impact of restrictions on the demand, analyze the relation between terminal restrictions and
departure taxi time on airport surface, and establish relationships between restrictions and
surface delay. We found that the restrictions on departure flights have a direct adverse effect
on departure excess taxi time on the airport surface. |