Affiliation(s)
1. Radio Frequency Identification Laboratory, Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and System Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA
2. Center for Research and Innovation on Supply Chain and Logistics, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panamá, 0801, Panamá
3. Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and System Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA
ABSTRACT
There is a growing in number of operations in aviation all over the world.
This growing is increasing the necessity of innovation and new technology to
respond the increment of the demand. As a respond of this demand, FAA (Federal
Aviation Administration) is working with NextGen in the United States and the
EUROCONTROL is implementing the Point Merge as solution in the air traffic flow
management in Europe. However, the FAA alternative and EUROCONTROL alternative
are not mutually exclusive since Panama, a small country in Latin America, is
trying to use a combination between the vectoring approach and the Point Merge
in the air traffic flow management. In addition, the AAC (Autoridad de
Aereonautica Civil) and the Tocumen (Tocumen International Airport) are working
in a continuous collaboration between FAA and Panama with the mutual challenge
to improve the actual system. As a result, the main airline of Panama, the Compañía Panameña
de Aviación (COPA Airlines), and the Autoridad de Aeronáutica Civil (AAC) constructed
a simulation model to select an air traffic flow alternative that can be able
to change the actual situation. In other words, COPA Airlines
and AAC are pursuing the minimization of the numbers
of conflicts, the number of sequence actions, the flight time, the track flight
distance and the fuel burn. Furthermore, this study aims to use the final draft
of this previous analysis based on a simulation methodology to conduct a Design
and Analysis of Computer Experiments with the final objective to increment the
statistical significance of the actual model.
KEYWORDS
Air traffic management, air
traffic KPIs, air traffic rules, ground traffic rules, season itinerary, DACE (Design and Analysis
of Computer Experiments), statistically significance.
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