Future Airspace and Air Traffic Management Design
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Traffic and Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 259
Special Issue Editors
Interests: air traffic management; air traffic control; automation; virtual agents
Interests: machine learning; airspace design; aircraft trajectories optimization; urban air mobility
Interests: airspace design; pilot assistance systems; sector-less air traffic management; 4D trajectory management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current air traffic system is reaching its limits. The traditional principle of dividing the airspace into sectors, assigning one air traffic control unit and organizing traffic via one radio communication line is not capable of handling the peak traffic numbers. Moreover, additional services as fuel optimized manoeuvres, traffic flows with reduced climate footprint and the integration of new vehicles struggle with the current airspace organisation and the air traffic controller availability. As such, novel techniques like sector-less control, digital assistants and datalink need to be further researched and combined into operational concepts for future air traffic management.
This Special Issue of Aerospace covers the latest advances in technologies and operational concepts that provide solutions for a future airspace and air traffic management design. The editor of this Special Issue invites authors to submit papers on flexible airspace structures, solutions for higher automation and technologies to overcome the current single sector air traffic management. As such, the potential for a more efficient and more sustainable airspace for future operations will be the focus of this issue.
Dr. Sebastian Schier-Morgenthal
Prof. Dr. Daniel Delahaye
Dr. Bernd Korn
Ingrid S. Gerdes
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- airspace design
- future air traffic management structures and methods
- air traffic control
- automation
- flexible airspace design
- artificial intelligence in air traffic management
- digital assistance
- next (digital) level of situational awareness
