SBIR Phase II: Information Model for Airspace Design and Planning

小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛影响旨在提高空中交通运营效率，提高机场和空域容量利用率，减少排放，噪音影响，航班延误以及机场和航空公司的运营成本。预期的结果是产生一个软件平台，该平台将成为全球200个主要城市机场和50多家航空公司使用的行业标准，解决超过1亿美元的可用市场。该技术可能有助于可持续的未来航空系统，使经济增长，同时最大限度地减少对环境的影响。该技术在纽约的初步开发和测试表明，该技术有可能将机场和空域容量提高20%，节省10%-21%的延误、燃油消耗、噪音影响和管制员工作量，每年节省20亿美元的成本。通过对拟议空域变化的三维可视化和对它们对环境和安全的预期影响的量化，弥合航空专业人员和公众之间的差距，拟议的创新可能会增加对空域运营和相关权衡的理解。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目旨在开发一个用于集成空域和机场系统规划、设计、和管理目前，机场管理局、航空公司和空中导航服务提供商使用传统软件工具进行上述操作。这些工具已经过时，难以使用，无法正确量化设计目标之间的权衡，并产生不可持续的设计解决方案，导致次优的系统性能。该项目的研究目标是统一机场运营的设计，规划和性能评估的脱节功能，量化竞争设计目标之间的权衡，并优化系统效率，最大限度地提高安全性和容量，同时最大限度地减少延误，排放，噪音，燃料消耗和运营成本。为了实现这一目标，该公司将与主要机场和航空公司合作，确定关键要求，开发易于处理的数学模型来解决任务，并通过在真实的运营环境中的应用来验证结果。预期的技术成果是一个统一的软件平台，它将使机场/航空公司更有效率，同时也平衡了运营、社会和环境目标，为未来建立一个可持续的航空系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to improve the efficiency of air traffic operations and increase airport and airspace capacity utilization, enabling reductions in emissions, noise impact, flight delays, and operational costs of airports and airlines. The anticipated result is to produce a software platform that will become an industry standard used by 200 major metropolitan airports and over 50 airlines globally, addressing an available market of over $100 Million. The technology may contribute to a sustainable future aviation system that enables economic growth, while minimizing environmental impact. Preliminary development and testing of the technology in New York indicates the potential to increase airport and airspace capacity by as much as 20%, with savings for delays, fuel burn, noise impact and controller workload from 10%-21%, and cost savings of $2 Billion/year. The proposed innovation may increase the understanding of airspace operations and related trade-offs by bridging the gap between aviation professionals and the public through 3D visualizations of proposed airspace changes and quantification of their expected impacts on the environment and safety.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to develop a software platform for integrated airspace and airport system planning, design, and management. Currently, airport authorities, airlines, and air navigation service providers use legacy software tools for the above. These tools are outdated and difficult to use, fail to properly quantify trade-offs between design objectives, and produce unsustainable design solutions leading to sub-optimal system performance. The research objectives of this project are to unify the disjointed functions of design, planning and performance evaluation of airport operations, quantify trade-offs between competing design objectives, and optimize for system efficiency in terms of maximizing safety and capacity while minimizing delays, emissions, noise, fuel burn and operational cost. To achieve this, the company will work with major airports and airlines to identify key requirements, develop tractable mathematical models for addressing the tasks and validate the results via application in real operational environments. The anticipated technical result is a unified software platform that will enable airports/airlines to be more efficient, while also balancing operational, societal, and environmental objectives in building a sustainable aviation system for the future.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.