Planning of Runway Occupancies for Departing Aircraft
by
Dietmar Böhme
German Aerospace Center

Runway Occupancy Planning is regarded as one important means to cope with the continuously increasing traffic demand. The integration of a Runway Occupancy Planning and some domain characteristics, like inherent uncertainty of available information, will be outlined. It will be shown that a planning concept based on a recurrent optimisation and information feedback is suitable to improve the runway capacity.

Planning will be first considered as a static optimisation task, that is the determination of optimum runway occupancies at a certain time using all relevant information available. Necessary properties of the system's dynamic model and the planning function will be investigated.

After that the dynamic planning will be introduced as a recurrent optimisation based on permanent plan monitoring. With the help of simulation results it will be shown that these resultant policy, i.e. the piecewise implementation of plans, cannot guarantee neither a required plan stability nor an optimum solution with respect of all relevant evaluation aspects.

Some modifications of the static planning function will be proposed as one approach to overcome the described problems of dynamic planning. Finally some additional consideration, e.g. about the controller's influence on planning, and a short outlook about further work and applications will be given.

Date received: March 13, 1998

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