Network Cell Air Traffic Routing Model For Control of Throughput and Delay

Alex T. Nguyen and J.S. Baras

To appear in the Proceedings of The INFORMS 2009, San Diego, CA, October 11-14, 2009.

Abstract

We propose a new approach in leveraging the highway cell transmission model (CTM) to the airspace in the form of a multiobjective optimization that trades between maximizing throughput and minimizing delay. The main flows of air traffic are determined via a clustering method and converted into a network of cells. The model is a multicommodity traffic flow Integer Program where the constraints are relaxed slightly from the CTM to examine strategies for achieving optimal throughput and delay.