Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7435963 | Journal of Air Transport Management | 2014 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The introduction of GNSS as primary mean of aircraft navigation calls for a rationalization of existing ground-based assistance networks. Several studies indicate the DME as the possible back-up solution, and therefore the only radio assistance to be maintained. The paper proposes an algorithm to optimize the DME network and reports, as a test, its application to the Italian case. The results indicate that a strong reduction, higher than 35%, in the number of sites, is possible. Furthermore, the paper confirms the validity of the genetic algorithms, which are the core of the proposed approach, for the network structuring problems.
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Authors
Pier Domenico Tromboni, Giovanni B. Palmerini,