Since the “invention” of free flight, the key question is whether airborne self-separation can
safely accommodate very high traffic demand. The aim of this paper is to answer this …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-2326. vid Achieving the National
Academy of Science's vision of advanced aerial mobility will depend on significant …

Air traffic management (ATM) comprises a highly complex socio-technical system that keeps
air traffic flowing safely and efficiently, worldwide, every minute of the year. Over the last few …

Thanks to decades of evolutionary development, within conventional air traffic control the
collaboration between the planning controller and the tactical controller has been optimized …

The information provided by global positioning systems is never totally exact, and there are
always errors when measuring position and velocity of moving objects such as aircraft. This …

Fifteen years after the “invention” of free flight an outstanding question still is: Can airborne
self separation safely accommodate very high traffic demand? The aim of this paper is to …

Since the “invention” of free flight, an outstanding question is how much traffic demand can
safely be accommodated by airborne self separation. In order to answer this question, within …

This article presents an analytical definition of lateral and temporal safety buffers to be used
in state-based conflict detection algorithms. A lateral buffer is a distance to be added to the …

The National Airspace System (NAS) is evolving; it is becoming more crowded, and new
vehicles with different capabilities are starting to utilize airspace. Increased capacity, new …

Thanks to decades of evolutionary developments, within conventional air traffic control, the
collaboration between the planning controller and the tactical controller has been optimized …