Modeling and managing separation for noise abatement arrival procedures

Aircraft noise is a significant concern to communities near airports, and therefore a constraint to the growth of aviation. Advanced noise abatement approach and arrival procedures have been shown in previous studies and in limited implementation to be a cost effective means of achieving near- and medium-term noise reductions. Additionally, these procedures can be employed to reduce fuel bum, emissions, and flight time. However, because of aircraft trajectory variations due to operational uncertainties, it is difficult for air traffic controllers to predict and maintain separation between aircraft. Thus, without proper decision support tools, controllers need to add arbitrarily large buffers, thereby reducing airport throughput. A design and operational framework is proposed to advance the implementation of noise abatement arrival procedures. Under this framework, a target spacing is given at an intermediate metering point to ensure with a certain (limited) probability that the remainder of the noise abatement arrival procedure may be completed without further controller intervention. Small probability exceptions are handled by alternative plans.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Ren, Liling

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• John-Paul B. Clarke.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/38645
• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/38645

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