Metron Aviation is the leader in
National Airspace System (NAS) resource allocation
theory. Our current research and development includes:
Departure
Flow Management (DFM), which is being
developed for the FAA by Metron Aviation, will provide
FAA traffic management controllers with the capability
to automate the coordination of departure releases
into congested airspace.
Along
with safe and efficient operation of the
NAS, air traffic
service providers are committed to equitable treatment
of their customers. Equity-related issues
can be
highly complex, subjective, and politically constrained.
Metron Aviation applies its extensive background
in FAA-industry relations and resource allocation
research to promote long-term and real-time
policies
and theories like that
are fair to all NAS users.
-Whenever there is competition for
limited resources, traffic flow management must
make critical resource allocation decisions. Metron
Aviation develops tools and algorithms to ensure
that NAS resources are used wisely. Approaches
vary
from system-wide optimization to market-based mechanisms.
Metron Aviation's
tool houses resource allocation logic for allocating
airport arrival slot resources during Ground Delay
Programs. In addition, Metron Aviation is developing
a Collaborative Routing Resource Allocation Tool
(CRRAT) as a testing platform for en route resource
allocation algorithms within the Jupiter Simulation
environment.
