Airspace closure challenges: Exploring the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutions
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has resulted in significant flight cancellations and flight rerouting, disrupting routine flight operations and increasing economic costs. This study tries to relieve these problems by optimizing flight trajectories from the perspective of air traffic management. First, t...
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| description | The Russia-Ukraine conflict has resulted in significant flight cancellations and flight rerouting, disrupting routine flight operations and increasing economic costs. This study tries to relieve these problems by optimizing flight trajectories from the perspective of air traffic management. First, the density-based cluster method is used to obtain representative flight trajectories for the selection of flight routes. Then, a multi-objective optimization model is proposed to minimize the weighted sum of flight time and fuel consumption by assigning flight routes, flight altitudes, and flight speeds, considering the wind effect. Results show that the proposed method can generate optimal assignments while satisfying the thresholds of flight time and fuel consumption. Besides, some policies and suggestions are advocated to alleviate the current issues caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The findings of this study can also be applied to other airspace closure scenarios, offering strategic insights and practical guidance for air traffic management. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-157dc55ea76e43168c91a449c36bc3832025-08-20T02:37:03ZengElsevierTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives2590-19822025-05-013110139610.1016/j.trip.2025.101396Airspace closure challenges: Exploring the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutionsDabin Xue0Sen Du1Yifan Xu2Qing Zhang3Xiaoqian Sun4Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; School of Aviation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, ChinaCollege of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China; National Key Lab of CNS/ATM, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, ChinaNational Key Lab of CNS/ATM, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China; Corresponding author.The Russia-Ukraine conflict has resulted in significant flight cancellations and flight rerouting, disrupting routine flight operations and increasing economic costs. This study tries to relieve these problems by optimizing flight trajectories from the perspective of air traffic management. First, the density-based cluster method is used to obtain representative flight trajectories for the selection of flight routes. Then, a multi-objective optimization model is proposed to minimize the weighted sum of flight time and fuel consumption by assigning flight routes, flight altitudes, and flight speeds, considering the wind effect. Results show that the proposed method can generate optimal assignments while satisfying the thresholds of flight time and fuel consumption. Besides, some policies and suggestions are advocated to alleviate the current issues caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The findings of this study can also be applied to other airspace closure scenarios, offering strategic insights and practical guidance for air traffic management.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198225000752Russia-Ukraine conflictAirspace closureFuel consumptionFlight trajectory optimizationAir traffic management |
| spellingShingle | Dabin Xue Sen Du Yifan Xu Qing Zhang Xiaoqian Sun Airspace closure challenges: Exploring the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutions Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives Russia-Ukraine conflict Airspace closure Fuel consumption Flight trajectory optimization Air traffic management |
| title | Airspace closure challenges: Exploring the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutions |
| title_full | Airspace closure challenges: Exploring the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutions |
| title_fullStr | Airspace closure challenges: Exploring the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Airspace closure challenges: Exploring the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutions |
| title_short | Airspace closure challenges: Exploring the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutions |
| title_sort | airspace closure challenges exploring the impact of the russia ukraine conflict on flight operations and pathways to solutions |
| topic | Russia-Ukraine conflict Airspace closure Fuel consumption Flight trajectory optimization Air traffic management |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198225000752 |
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