FLIGHT ALLOCATION TO EN-ROUTE CONTROLLERS IN THE TBO FRAMEWORK

The present communication deals within the Trajectory Based Operations framework, on the problem of assigning flights to controllers in extended control areas. First, a flight centric complexity metric is used to quantify the interaction between planned flights at the pre-tactical level and an assignment problem solved through an heuristic while leads to the dimensionning of the control task force. Then, to cope with the tactical level, the flight centric complexity metric is modified to take into account trajectories' uncertainty. This allows to propose an on-line allocation scheme of flights to controllers according to their workload and to the estimated traffic complexity expected to be met by these flights.