부산대학교 도서관

The exploratory Supersector project falls within the scope of research based on the hypothesis that the current proliferation of controlled sectors had led to a too rigid use of airspace to face with medium- to long-term traffic growth. Supersector suggests a shift of paradigm from sector-division to sector-regrouping, i.e. instead of subdividing sectors to accommodate traffic growth, Supersector investigates a new control organization and practices from which traffic in large volume of airspace can be managed by teams of controllers with responsibilities no more restricted to sector-planning and radar-control but span from real-time traffic flow organization to conflict solving. In this way, it is expected that Supersector can help filling the gap between long-term predictive issues of central flow management, and short-term adaptive issues of radar-control, and thus moving from the today's non-synchronous Air Traffic Management System to a synchronous one, from a sector-control working methods to a network and flow management one, from conflict-based control to a time-based control one. A human-in-the-loop demonstration has been realised and allowed to validate the hypothesis and to identify the pros and cons of such a synchronised ATM. Time-based ATM architecture, 4D contract of service, teamwork, trunk-structured airspace design, medium-term anticipation and layer planning working methods have been explored and results are discussed.