27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS2010-P8.1

MEASURING AIRCRAFT FLOWS COMPLEXITY

M. Zanin
Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute, Spain

Keywords: sector complexity, complex network, decision cost

The problem of measuring the subjective perception of complexity created by non regular intersecting flows of aircrafts is proposed. By constructing networks connecting aircrafts and following their evolution, a Spatial Complexity metric is estimated: comparisons between this metric and a standard one are reported for virtual traffic scenarios.

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