Concept and Requirements for Airport Surface Conflict Detection and Resolution

The paper deals with the concept and requirement for airport surface Conflict Detection and Resolution (CD&R). The scope of the proposed CD&R concept spans across three different timeframes: (i) near-term (2015), (ii) mid-term (2020), and (iii) far-term (2025). Enabling technologies such as (i) surveillance, (ii) airport surface operations planning automation, (iii) clearance delivery mechanism, (iv) clearance information available to CD&R automation, and (v) flight-deck automation are studied. The paper identifies the functional requirements for the CD&R automation system such as aircraft state estimation module and aircraft trajectory prediction module. Detalied descriptions of the individual algorithms are beyond the scope of the current paper and will be presented in a future paper. However, preliminary closed-loop simulation results obtained with the conflict detection and resolution system are presented.