FACET or future air traffic management

Take a few minutes viewing the following simulations. Representing U.S. air traffic on any given day and during the fateful September 11, also classified by airlines. The picture is awesome, every little dot on the map represents a plane of the thousands who daily ply the skies.

The recreation is the work of FACET and Future Air Traffic Management Concepts Evaluation Tool, in Castilian, a new system for air traffic management developed by NASA. The program simulates different scenarios that have to deal with drivers on duty, including that which is happening at any moment over their heads.

The software has been created by the Ames Research Center in California and has won the award for Government Invention of the Year, awarded to those inventions that contribute to the objectives of NASA, in this case the aviation community. Banavar Sridhar, scientist NASA for Air Transportation Systems speaks well of FACET:

Air traffic increases as the global population, which is the overcrowding of airspace. FACET helps researchers find air traffic routes by which to increase air capacity and establish more efficient routes in terms of environmental impact, involving a low fuel consumption and minimizing emissions.

FACET takes multiple variables present in the profiles that include airlines (including weather) to produce their images in two and three dimensions, crucial, experts say, to ensure minimum air congestion and therefore reduce airport delays incordiantes.

FACET or future air traffic management written ALT1040 April 27, 2011 by Jose Carlos Castillo
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