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International audience; The main ideas behind the design of CATS were to have a general purpose simulator able to be a stable basis for the development of other modules, representing different levels of Air Traffic Control and Air Traffic Management. The basic framework and hypothesis [...]

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International audience; This paper addresses the classical graph partitioning problem applied to the air network. We consider an air transportation network with aircraft inducing a control workload. This network has to be partitioned into K balanced sectors for which the cutting flow [...]

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International audience; This paper presents new concepts to address the air traffic complexity modeling problem. Two new geometrical metrics have been introduced and have been found very useful to capture typical features of traffic complexity. The covariance metric is very adapted [...]

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International audience; The fast growth of air traffic that began during the 80's raises some questions about what future air traffic control (ATC) systems need to be. A major change will probably be required in Europe within a 30 year time frame. Fortunately, recent developments [...]

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ft need to be separated from other aircraft by either a minimum vertical distance of 1000ft or by a minimum horizontal distance of 5NM to avoid mid-air collisions. Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) work well as a tactical safety backups to avoid collision, but cannot [...]