Issues on simulation and optimization II: targeting aviation delay through simulation optimization

  • Authors:
  • Frederick Wieland;Thomas Curtis Holden

  • Affiliations:
  • The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA;The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Analyses of benefits due to changes in the National Airspace System (NAS) tend to focus on the delay reduction (or similar metric) given a fixed traffic schedule. In this paper, we explore the use of simulation optimization to solve for the increased traffic volume that the proposed change can support given a constant delay. The increased traffic volume as a result of the change can therefore be considered another benefit metric. As the NAS is a highly nonlinear stochastic system, the technique required to compute the increase traffic volume necessarily requires stochastic optimization methods.