Study of Traffic Packing over the North Atlantic.

Abstract

This report updates the work first carried out by P.P. Scott on North Atlantic data for 1967-data for 1973 is now examined. Relationships are found between the number of flights in a day and measures of the occupancies of the tracks and flight levels which are adjacent to those of a 'typical' aircraft. These results are used to construct a flight request pattern required as input data to a simulation model which forecasts the density with which aircraft will be packed into the North Atlantic track system as the traffic flow increases in future years. Repeated runs of the model with a series of traffic flow rates have enabled the packing density to be expressed as a function of traffic intensity. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA051956

Entities

People

  • Rosalind S. Sheil

Organizations

  • Royal Aircraft Establishment

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Aircrafts
  • Collisions
  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Programs
  • Distribution Functions
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Flow Rate
  • Foreign Languages
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Mid-Air Collisions
  • Observation
  • Packing Density
  • Risk
  • Simulations
  • Standards

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Oceanography.