Advanced Airspace Modeling, Characterization, and Planning

"The current methods for collecting and analyzing airspace data and reporting airspace utilization involves counting flight strips, watching radar tapes, using scheduled flight plan information as actual utilization and estimating airspace utilization basedupon corporate memory. The Airspace Utilization Reporting System (AURS) was developed to automate the determination and reporting of actual airspace utilization. However, AURS is limited in its capabilities. A new revolutionary system to report airspaceutilization is required. This revolutionary system is called Real-time Airspace Management Expert System (RAMES). RAMES will do for airspace utilization management what the Global Positioning System (GPS) has done for aviation navigation. RAMES willrevolutionize airspace management by incorporating a real-time architecture coupled with an Expert System (ES), Geographical Information System (GIS), Virtual Reality System (VRS), and or a touch screen or voice activated user interface. The real-timearchitecture will allow RAMES to collect and process track and flight plan data instantaneously and display the information via the GIS or VRS front-end. This GIS or VRS front-end will present the information in user-friendly 3-D topographical maps. The ESwill be used for the automated correlation between scheduled flight plan information and actual utilization, schedule deconfliction, and modeling and forecasting. A successful completion of th