DEVELOPMENT OF A TERMINAL RADAR APPROACH CONTROL SIMULATOR AND FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL METHOD

Abstract

Airport capacity in Tokyo metropolitan area have always been insufficient in spite of the large potential demand. While an additional runway must significantly enhance the capacity, the improvement of air traffic control (ATC) procedure can also be effective by utilizing existing stocks. Many existing researches suggested that some flexible air traffic flow control on the final approach area and runway can have positive impacts on capacity. However the ATC procedures in terminal approach control area which enable such a flexible control on the final also need to be considered. In order to do that, the collection of air traffic control data in terminal approach control area and its analysis is required in advance. Therefore, this research develops the original terminal radar approach simulator and conducts an fundamental analysis of ATC procedure data obtained by the pilot experiment.