Thu, Feb 10, 2011
NextGen Airspace Procedures Design For High Density Airport
Terminal Areas
NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission
Directorate (ARMD) is about to undertake what is being called the
Super Density Operations Airspace Design (SDOAD) project, which
will enable NASA to more effectively and accurately research
NextGen concepts to increase capacity at high volume, complex
airports and surrounding airspaces. The agency has awarded a
contract to Sensis Corporation to develop airspace definitions,
including procedures and routes.
As part of its NextGen initiative, NASA is examining a number of
new operational concepts aimed at addressing current and future
capacity challenges at major U.S. airports. In order to best test
and evaluate these concepts, airspace definitions, including
operational procedures and routes, must be developed. Sensis will
be modeling the arrival and departure traffic routes for six major
Southern California metroplex airports including Los Angeles
International (LAX), Burbank (BUR), Ontario (ONT), Long Beach
(LGB), Santa Ana (SNA), and San Diego (SAN). The project will
entail characterization of traffic flow route and altitude ranges;
analysis, modeling and design of continuous descent and standard
arrival procedures as well as future departure procedures; and
trajectory based evaluation of the modeled procedures. NASA will
use the definitions to accurately test new concepts, including
automated arrival concepts.
"Current U.S. airport capacity is
far less than the forecast demand. One of the goals of NextGen is
to develop new procedures that will unlock capacity by increasing
operational efficiencies," said Ken Kaminski, vice president and
general manager, Sensis Air Traffic Systems. "This project looks at
a complex high traffic metroplex to identify the individual
operational characteristics that need to be taken into account to
accurately test NextGen capacity improvement concepts before the
concepts are further matured."
Sensis has completed numerous modeling, simulation and analysis
projects for NASA, JPDO, FAA and other industry and academic
organizations. The company can generate current and future air
traffic demand scenarios, provide system-wide or regional
simulations to evaluate current and future air traffic management
concepts, and analyze and visualize simulation results.
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