Scheduling Aircraft to Reduce Controller Workload

We address a problem in air traffic management: scheduling flights in order to minimize the maximum number of aircraft that simultaneously lie within a single air traffic control sector at some time t. Since the problem is a generalization of the NP-hard nowait job-shop scheduling, we resort to heuristics. We report experimental results for real-world flight data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ATMOS
• Authors: Joondong Kim, Alexander Kroeller, Joseph S. B. Mitchell
• Keywords: Air Traffic, Air Traffic Management, ATMOS 2009, Optimization, Single Air Traffic