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Free route airspace permits users to freely plan a route between defined entry and exit waypoints, with the possibility of routing via intermediate points. Flights flying in a free route area remain subject to air traffic control (ATC) for separation provision. This research evaluates [...]

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In the context of the ERAINT project, a number of human-in-the-loop simulations were conducted to study the implications of integrating a remote piloted aircraft system (RPAS) into the managed airspace. For the purpose of this study, the RPAS was assumed to be involved in surveillance [...]

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We demonstrate a method for airspace design that makes explicit use of weather forecast data, in addition to forecasted traffic data, to design sectors that potentially permit reduced traffic flow management actions. We use a local geometric optimization method to partition a portion [...]

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This paper presents a statistical aircraft trajectory clustering approach aimed at discriminating between typical manned and expected unmanned traffic patterns. First, the track angle history for each trajectory is re-sampled and modelled using a mixture of Von Mises distributions [...]

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In the SESAR traffic growth predictions, traffic complexity will become an issue that the current Air Traffic Management organization is not able to handle. The 4D trajectory concept offers new perspectives for deconflicting the traffic by ground-holding aircraft before they take-off. [...]

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Comparisons of measured and model-predicted atmospheric copper concentrations show a severe underestimation of the observed concentrations by the models. This underestimation may be (partly) due to underestimated emissions of copper to air. Since the phase out of asbestos brake lining [...]