The United Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Authority published the national aviation
forecast in 2008. The forecast predicts that domestic traffic will increase by
3.5% per year, and that international traffic will grow, on average, by 4.5%
during 2010-2020. Based on this prediction, the traffic density will increase
dramatically in the future, and airspace will be more and more congested.
Usually, there are two potential solutions to deal with this situation: improving
the ability of air traffic flow management is one solution; reducing the separation
minimum of aircraft is another solution. However, this thesis focuses on the
second solution, based on constraints of communication, navigation and
surveillance systems (CNS). Cont?d.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CRANFIELD1/oai:dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk:1826/5637 |
| Date | 01 1900 |
| Creators | Dong, Wenfang |
| Contributors | Jia, Huamin |
| Publisher | Cranfield University |
| Source Sets | CRANFIELD1 |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or dissertation, Masters, MSc by Research |
| Rights | © Cranfield University, 2009. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder. |
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