Design of aircraft trajectories based on trade-offs between emission sources

Proceedings of the 9th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, ATM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 54-63

  Sridhar, Banavar ^a   Chen, Neil Y ^a   Ng, Hok K ^b   Linke, Florian ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aircraft emissions; Climate impact; Contrails avoidance; Trajectory optimization

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; BALLOONS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FUELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAJECTORIES; TRAVEL TIME; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRCRAFT EMISSIONS; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CONTRAILS AVOIDANCE; NON-LINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL; OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION; WEATHER FORECAST MODELS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84941756197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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