PARC could be used by the NASA Airspace Technology Demonstration-2 (ATD-2) traffic scheduling to compare the throughput implied by scheduled runway operations to runway capacity as per operating conditions. Specifically, if tactical runway schedules are constructed to meet minimum statutory spacing requirements, PARC could assess whether the resulting schedules comply with appropriate or typical spacing buffers. PARC could be used in other ATD-2 decision support and real-time control tools to support planning and management of airport runway configuration; allocation of runway capacity to arrivals, departures and crossing runway traffic; and/or metering of airport traffic for macroscopic Traffic Flow Management (TFM) or finer-grained Time-Based Flow Management (TBFM) applications. Specifically, PARC could estimate airport runway capacities for runway configuration planning, traffic metering and management, and demand-capacity balancing. PARC could be used in the ATD-2 system to assess in-trail separations of aircraft at the runway (measured from surveillance data) and alert controllers to occurrences of excessively small spacing values of low-probability, indicating a shift in the operating characteristics to be addressed. PARC could be used to estimate airport runway and airport-wide arrival and departure capacity values for modeling and simulation of traffic under different operating conditions for concept and technology research and development activities.
PARC could be a decision support tool for FAA Airport Tower Controllers to plan airport runway configurations and utilizations (e.g., dedicated versus shared, arrival-departure capacity allocations for shared runways). PARC could be a decision support tool for FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) and the Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) to estimate the arrival capacities of US airports for anticipated operating conditions for demand-capacity balancing. PARC could be a tool for FAA Airport Tower Controllers to compare in real-time spacing measured from airport surveillance and infrastructure data to modeled spacing and alert of anomalies. PARC could be used by the airport authority, airline or airlines, or a third party to manage surface traffic in the non-movement area of the airport including planning and control of movement area exits and entries, gate assignments, departure reservoirs. PARC could be implemented as an analysis tool for airport consulting agencies to use in airport master planning. Specifically, PARC would be used to estimate the airport runway capacities for numerous operating conditions and compare the capacities to anticipated traffic to determine the need for modifications to, or addition of, runways to increase capacity. PARC could be used to compute and compare the effective and theoretical capacities of an airport?s configurations for efficiency assessment and traffic management.
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