CONFLICT RESOLUTION ALGORITHMS FOR THE INTEGRATION OF CONTINUOUS CLIMB OPERATIONS IN A TERMINAL MANEUVER AREA
This work presents a design approach and the algorithms for a future air traffic control tool which allow the operation of Continuous Climb Operations free of conflicts. This tool is designed for a tactical scenario where controllers can allow or prevent from an optimal departure of an aircraft taking into account several factors type of aircraft, arrival and departing aircraft performances and airspace design. Thus, the aim of this tool is to generate a blocking area on some arrival or departing standard routes to ease the decision of air traffic controllers to permit or forbid the operation. Henceforward, controllers have two options or to favor the arrival aircraft preventing the departure aircraft from taking off until the blocking area is free or to opt for the opposite action, in which the arrival aircraft has to modify its route in order to avoid a conflict. This effect is analyzed in a real and high density scenario Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The traffic of Palma is assessed and simulated with fasttime simulations in order to shape the blocking areas. Lastly a real instance is presented in order to validate the algorithm.