Assessing ATM Performance with Simulation and Optimisation Tools The APACHE Project

Xavier Prats (1) , Cristina Barrado (1) , Andrija Vidosavljevic (2) , Daniel Delahaye (2) , Fedja Netjasov (3) , Dusan Crnogorac (3)

1 UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Barcelona]
2 ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
3 University of Belgrade [Belgrade]

This paper describes the objectives and methodology of the APACHE project, a SESAR Exploratory Research project proposing a new framework to assess European air traffic management (ATM) performance. This framework integrates an ATM simulator prototype used to synthesise scenarios for pre-ops performance assessment, but also needed to compute some novel performance indicators, which require from optimisation or simulation capabilities. This simulator embeds a trajectory planner; an airspace planner; a traffic and capacity planner; and finally, a performance analyser module. An illustrative example is given, showing the successful integration of all these modules, where an initial performance assessment is done for a realistic data set of 24h of traffic over the FABEC airspace.

Mots clés: ATM performance; simulation; trajectory and airspace optimisation; risk assessment; environmental impact

Domaines: Mathématiques [math]; Optimisation et contrôle [math.OC]

Xavier Prats, Cristina Barrado, Andrija Vidosavljevic, Daniel Delahaye, Fedja Netjasov, et al.. Assessing ATM Performance with Simulation and Optimisation Tools The APACHE Project. SID 2017, 7th SESAR Innovation Days , Nov 2017, Belgrade, Serbia. ⟨hal-01652047⟩