The rerouting of aircraft to avoid either bad weather or congested airspace is a technique commonly used by Air Traffic Management (ATM) today.
Midterm FAA-Airspace User Collaborative Routing Operational Concept
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The rerouting of aircraft to avoid either bad weather or congested airspace is a technique commonly used by Air Traffic Management (ATM) today. It is hoped that the current process for determining the need for reroutes and developing reroute plans can be improved through increased collaboration between ATM and airspace users. This report presents a strawman operational concept for Collaborative Routing in the midterm (2005) time frame. It was prepared as part of the MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) support to the Federal Aviation Administration's Collaborative Routing Research. The report contains a scenario depicting collaborative decision making between Traffic Flow Management (TFM) and airspace users to manage traffic situations requiring routing actions. Suggested participant roles and responsibilities, implied procedural and decision support system enhancements, and outstanding research issues are also presented.