Methodology for Collision Risk Assessment of an Airspace Flow Corridor Concept
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2014-05
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Zhang, Yimin
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This dissertation presents a methodology to estimate the collision risk associated with a future air-transportation concept called the flow corridor. The flow corridor is a Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) concept to reduce congestion and increase throughput in en-route airspace. The flow corridor has the potential to increase throughput by reducing the controller workload required to manage aircraft outside the corridor and by reducing separation of aircraft within corridor. The analysis in this dissertation is a starting point for the safety analysis required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to eventually approve and implement the corridor concept.
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Operations research, Transportation planning, Autonomous flight management, Dynamic event tree, Fault tree, Flow corridor concept, Monte Carlo simulation, Self separation