23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-R45

TRAJECTORY MODELING ACCURACY FOR AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS

S. Mondoloni, M. Paglione, S. Green
CSSI Inc., FAA WHJTC, NASA Ames

Keywords: atm, dss, trajectory forecasting

Future air traffic management (ATM) decision support systems (DSS) rely upon trajectory forecasting to adequately deliver benefits. These forecasts are subject to errors from a variety of sources. As the number and sophistication of ATM DSS capabilities grow, the interoperability between DSS will become more sensitive to the magnitude and variation in trajectory forecasting errors across DSS. This paper presents a parametric analysis of some of the larger error sources.

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