Advances in Air Traffic and Airspace Control and Management (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

The control and management of air traffic and airspace is a cornerstone for air transportation. It aims at ensuring the regular, safe and efficient movement of aircraft during all phases of operations. We are moving towards a complex and exciting industry that brings together many actors, services, facilities, processes and implications—an industry with an incipient need for researching the operational, economic, social and environmental significance of air traffic and airspace control and management. In this modern, large-scale and dynamic air transportation system, there is a growing opportunity to develop new ideas, models, methods, optimisation approaches, improved operational procedures and design enhancements to support air traffic and airspace management functions, such as flight planning, trajectory prediction and optimisation, sector capacity/demand balancing, delay reduction, airspace and procedure design and environmental impact mitigation. Many promising challenges are expected from future developments in air transport, so now is the right time to face them.

This Special Issue aims to bring together innovative contributions that address all tasks related to air traffic and airspace control and management. Therefore, we welcome original research articles and reviews related to all fields of the topic, including the construction or testing of a model or framework, validation of data, market research or surveys, conceptual discussions, reviews of recent research, papers with a practical or empirical focus and case studies. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Trajectory prediction and management;
• Trajectory optimisation, guidance and control;
• Air traffic control fundamentals;
• Capacity, delay and demand management;
• Resource planning and optimisation;
• Data science, complexity and machine learning in air traffic management (ATM);
• Network and strategic flow optimisation;
• Surveillance and navigation;
• Airspace design;
• Air traffic operations;
• Conflict detection and resolution models;
• Airport planning, management and operations;
• Economics, finance and policy;
• Performance measurement in air traffic management (ATM);
• Safety, resilience and security;
• Environmental impact analysis and mitigation;
• Weather in air traffic management (ATM);
• Sustainability in air traffic management (ATM);
• Human factors;
• UAS/RPAS integration and operation;
• Unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM);
• Impact of COVID-19 on management and operations.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz
Guest Editor

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