摘要: |
Provision of strategic scheduling and tactical separation services is vital to the safe and
efficient operation of vehicles in the urban airspace. This paper describes the efforts made
towards the integration of two such services in a simulation environment under ideal
conditions and the subsequent studies done on evaluation of system performance. The
scheduling and separation services are set up to complement each other to ensure safe
separation between airborne aircraft. The utility of these services will become important as
the level of traffic increases. This paper describes the simulation experiments conducted to
identify cases where the system performance measured by the number of observed losses of
separation degrades even with the scheduling and separation services active. From the results
obtained, we identify conditions under which the required maneuvers increase and when we
observe airborne conflicts even with separation service active. Results obtained will inform
requirements for future advancements both in these services independently and in their joint
operations. |