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Effects of capacity sharing on delays and re-routings in European ATM

Paper ID

SIDs-2022-095

Conference

SESAR Innovation Days

Year

2022

Theme

ATM Concepts and Operations

Project Name

SESAR 2020 ER4 project CADENZA

Keywords:

cost, cross-border capacity sharing, delay, Network optimization, re-routing

Authors

Jan-Rasmus Kuennen, Arne Strauss, Nikola Ivanov, Radosav Jovanovic, Frank Fichert, Marc Melgosa Farrés and Goran Pavlovic

DOI

Project Number

893380

Abstract

In this paper we analyse the effects of capacity sharing between Area Control Centres on delays and re-routings. We assume two different design options for capacity sharing (within Air Navigation Service Providers and within Functional Airspace Blocks) and compare them to a baseline scenario. Using the CADENZA optimization and simulation model, we build a case study of a busy day in the ECAC area, using 100 different scenario runs in order to capture traffic variability as well as capacity reductions. Results show that capacity sharing leads to a decrease of delay and re-routing costs that outweighs the additional costs of enabling capacity sharing even if we assume relatively high additional costs per shared sector-hour. Moreover, it can be shown that capacity sharing within ANSPs already delivers ¾ of the benefits that can be achieved via capacity sharing within FABs.