An Empirical Study on System Dynamics Model for Sustainable Development of Air Traffic Control Units

Chen, Fang; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xinjian

doi:10.2478/eces-2021-0009

Abstract

With the rapid growth of flight volume, the contradiction between insufficient support capability of air traffic control (ATC) units and large demand for development ultimately hinders their sustainable and safe development. The article aims at the leverage point of the contradiction between supply and demand so as to provide scientific safety policies. Based on the system archetype “growth and underinvestment”, from the perspective of the feedback relationships between support capability, safety, and development, the causality of the dynamic factors of control, communication, navigation, and surveillance, as well as meteorology and information subsystems was studied. Then, a system dynamics model for the sustainable and safe development of ATC units was established. Taking the Tianjin ATC sub-bureau as an example, policy suggestions for sustainable and safe development were put forward according to the scenario simulation results.

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An Empirical Study on System Dynamics Model for Sustainable Development of Air Traffic Control Units

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