Scheduling Models and Algorithms for TMA Traffic Management

A number of models and algorithms to support the optimum mamagement of the terminal area have been presented in the literature and/or are operating in some airport. Most of them focus the attention mainly to landing operations and modelling capabilities are concentrated to the runway complex, assumed to be a single runway in the simplest case, or examining specific configurations when necessary. In this paper, we propose a modelling approach enabling, through a discretization of the whole space terminal area to coordinate inbound and outbound traffic flows on all the prefixed routes. Several operational constraints, like longitudinal and diagonal separations in particular regions of the airspace and different runways configuration (independent, parallel, crossing) can be represented in a uniform framework. In order to assess the model's capabilities, we describe in detail a case study performed for the Rome Fiumicino airport which for we report also algorithmic results with respect to different performance indexes.