摘要: |
This paper introduces a ground-delay-based traffic management approach to reduce the
impedance-based airspace complexity for a given scenario. This work extends our prior
research on developing an impedance-based complexity metric for unmanned aircraft system
traffic scenario classification. Impedance-based metric was evaluated for 1045 randomly-
generatedscenarios. Scenarioswithoverallimpedanceaboveacertainthresholdweredeclared
as not feasible. A ground-delay-based approach was developed to be applied to the rest of
the scenarios so as to remediate any scenarios with small areas of high impedance on their
impedance maps. A sample application is shown for a scenario with sixty flights. The detailed
trade-offsbetweenoverallaccruedsystemdelay,thenumberofdelayedflights,thetotalnumber
of conflicts and the highest impedance observed as a function of the delay tolerance for each
aircraft are provided. Potential applications to Urban Air Mobility traffic scenarios are also
discussed. |