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Crossing Waypoint Optimization in Free Route Airspace

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With the imminent growth in air travel, ensuring the efficiency of airspace has become a necessity. This work addresses this specific concern, namely, the optimization of a Free Route Airspace (FRA). The FRA is a relatively recent concept applied into the european airspace. Even though this approach has the advantage of having the direct routing between origin and destination, there are still aspects that can be improved, regarding conflict handling and air traffic controllers’ workload. To face this problem, we study the incorporation of Crossing Waypoints (CWs) into the FRA. These CWs will cluster the locations of conflicts, facilitating the controller’s task. However, identifying their best locations and connections poses a challenge. Along this research, the problem of finding the optimal topology will be modeled in order to minimize potential conflicts between flights, reduce the workload on controllers, and decrease airlines’ costs. This will lead to a multi-objective optimization problem, involving a balance between safety and fuel consumption. To find a solution to this issue, meta-heuristics algorithms were employed and compared (Particle Swarm Optimization, Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search). Initially the model will be validated in simple cases in order to compare the use of direct routing and the CW approach. Then the procedure is evaluated in a case-study of sector LFEEKF in Reims. Finally, we present a comparison between the algorithms to evaluate their individual performances.
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hal-04636700 , version 1 (05-07-2024)

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Santiago Rodrigez, Daniel Delahaye. Crossing Waypoint Optimization in Free Route Airspace. International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, EUROCONTROL FAA NTU, Jul 2024, Singapore, Singapore. ⟨hal-04636700⟩
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