Mohammed Sbihi

Optimizing the design of a route in Terminal Maneuvering Area using Branch and Bound

The sharp increase in air traffic flow causes traffic congestion in airspaces near airports, called Terminal Maneuvering Areas (TMA). The departure and arrival traffic of airports follow predesigned routes named standard instrument departure (SID) routes and standard terminal arrival routes (STAR). Optimizing these routes is crucial to regulate air traffic. Currently, SIDs and STARs are designed manually, based on the airport layout and nearby constraints. The objective of this research is to propose a methodology for designing an arrival/departure route in TMA, taking into account some constraints including obstacle avoidance. The shape of a route in horizontal plan is a succession of arcs of circles and segments. The originality of our study is, on the one hand, that the horizontal route is associated with a cone in vertical plan enveloping all ascent (or descent) aircraft profiles, and on the other hand, a branching strategy in a branch and bound (B&B) framework tailored on the problem is proposed.

Optimal design of SIDs/STARs in TMA using simulated annealing

In this study, we propose a Simulated Annealing (SA) method to solve the problem of designing multiple Standard Instrument Departure (SID) routes and Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STAR) in Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) with optimal lengths. This work extends our previous work (J. Zhou et al., 2015) for the design of one optimal route. The design of multiple routes addressed in this paper takes into account obstacle avoidance and routes separation as main constraints. Our preliminary numerical results show that the proposed SA method is effective in the generation of multiple routes in a TMA.

Optimization-Based Design of Departure and Arrival Routes in Terminal Maneuvering Area

The efficient design of departure and arrival routes in the airspace surrounding airports, called the terminal maneuvering area, is crucial for increasing the capacity of such areas, thus alleviati...