SARGe: Sector-Less Automatic Route Generator

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Summary

• Acronyme: SARGe
• Nom du projet: Sector-Less Automatic Route Generator
• Date de début: 2003
• Date de fin: -

Description

The paradigm that the Sector-Less concept investigates is the trajectory-based individual control as opposed to the airspace-based sector control currently used. In this concept the role of the controller is radically different from the actual one: instead of having two controllers controlling one sector containing n aircrafts, one controller will be responsible for a number of m aircrafts, from departure to arrival terminal areas (TMA).

The aim of the SARGe project is to generate a route network which will both fit into the Sector-Less concept and provide an aeroplane with the shortest route possible. The approach chosen is to generate a suitable simple route network for Sector-Less and to improve it by using optimisation techniques such as a simulated annealing algorithm or a genetic algorithm.

Example

Here is an example of the initial route network used. It's main characteristics are:

• a square 4000 kilometres long
• two neighbouring crossing points are separated by 240 km making 256 of them

The best solution found so far is presented below. The average global extension of trajectories in comparison with the length of direct routes is worth 16% in this case (it worth from 7% to 11% in the current route network).

Links

• Centre d'Études de la Navigation Aérienne (maintenant Sous Direction des Études et de la Recherche)
• EUROCONTROL Experimental Center
• Ocaml

Main publications

• Plus courts chemins dans un graphe planaire et création d'un réseau de routes aériennes Pascal Brisset, Thomas Riviere JFPC05 (2005/06/10)
• Generating a European Route Network for Sector-Less Thomas Riviere ICRAT'2004 (2004/11/22)
• Redesign of the European Route Network for Sector-Less Thomas Riviere 23rd DASC (Best Track Paper, Best Student Paper) (2004/10/24)

Sector-Less Air Traffic Management Vu Duong, Gilles Gawinowski, Jean-Pierre Nicolaon, Darren Smith ATM2001 (2001/12/03)

All publications of the lab can be found here.

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