Trajectory Amendment Brokerage for Airlines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for calculating flight trajectory amendments require significant computational and human resources, limiting smaller airlines' ability to perform advantageous trajectory modifications due to limited access to data sources.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based computing system identifies current aircraft trajectories, determines real-time trajectory amendments using parameters like weather and air traffic rules, and provides these amendments for selection by operators, offering cost-efficient operations savings without requiring extensive resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If airlines calculate flight trajectory amendments using their own resources, then trajectory optimization can be achieved, but computational and human resources are significantly consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a brokerage system as an intermediary that calculates and provides trajectory amendments to airlines. This mediator handles the complex computational tasks of trajectory optimization, allowing individual airlines to access optimized trajectories without needing to build their own complex calculation systems. The brokerage receives trajectory requests, performs computations using available data sources, and delivers amendment recommendations to operators.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and distributes trajectory amendment recommendations as reusable information products. Instead of each airline independently performing complex calculations, the brokerage generates trajectory amendments that can be copied and provided to multiple operators. This allows smaller airlines to access the same optimized trajectory solutions without replicating the computational infrastructure.
2Loss of energy
If smaller airlines attempt to calculate trajectory amendments, then cost savings may be achieved, but limited access to data sources restricts their ability to perform advantageous modifications
Solution Approach 1:
The brokerage system serves multiple airlines simultaneously, providing universal access to trajectory optimization capabilities. It aggregates data from multiple sources and serves diverse clients with different needs, allowing smaller airlines to access the same data sources and analytical capabilities that would be unavailable to them individually. The system performs multiple functions: data aggregation, trajectory calculation, and distribution to various operators.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines data from multiple sources including weather data, air traffic control information, and aircraft performance data into a unified trajectory optimization service. By merging these diverse data streams and computational resources into a single brokerage system, smaller airlines gain access to comprehensive data that would otherwise require individual procurement and integration efforts.
3Manufacturing precision
If more data sources are accessed for trajectory calculations, then more advantageous trajectory amendments can be identified, but the complexity and cost of data acquisition increases
Solution Approach 1:
The brokerage acts as an intermediary that handles data acquisition from multiple sources. Instead of each airline building complex infrastructure to access weather data, air traffic control systems, and other data sources, the brokerage consolidates these data acquisition efforts and provides the processed information to all clients through a single interface.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for providing trajectory amendments are provided. In one embodiment, a computing system can identify a plurality of aircraft operators. The system can provide for display in a user interface, to one or more computing devices of each of the plurality of aircraft operators, a first set of data identifying an arrival time slot associated with a landing area. The system can receive one or more second sets of data indicating that one or more of the aircraft operators has selected the arrival time slot. The system can select a first aircraft operator of the one or more aircraft operators for the arrival time slot. The system can provide, to a computing device of the first aircraft operator, an output indicating that the first operator has been selected for the arrival time slot.