Jovanovic, Radosav - Prvi autor
Cangalovic, Mirjana - Drugi autori
BABIC, Obrad J. - Drugi autori
Begovic, Boris - Drugi autori
Cook, Andrew - Drugi autori
Tosic, Vojin S. - Mentor

656.7

Monografska publ./Monography

English/engleski

[R. Jovanovic]

2011

Beograd

97 listova : graf. prikazi ; 30 cm

Umnozeno za odbranu. - Univerzitet u Beogradu, Saobracajni fakultet, odbranjeno 14.11.2011. - Bibliografija: listovi 85-92. - Summary.
- - Economic measures for air traffic demand management [Elektronski izvor]. - 1 elektronski opticki disk (CD-ROM) ; 12 cm

This thesis investigates the potential of strategic air navigation services (ANS) charges modulation as a means to alleviate the en-route congestion in the European airspace. Modulated charges are, by definition, the charges that are adjusted according to the time and/or situation of use of the facility or service concerned, for example, peak/off-peak hours, air traffic congestion, etc. The thesis enlightens the current - inherently administrative - flow management practices in the European air traffic management (ATM) system, showing that under the present system settings there are only fairly limited demand management actions undertaken prior to day of operation. The present EUROCONTROL route charging system is critically examined as well. It is shown that this charging scheme does not offer incentives to airlines to use the scarce air traffic control (ATC) capacity in an efficient way, therefore contributing to airspace congestion. here are different demand management options available to cope with the demand exceeding the capacity of some elements of an (ATM) system. We hypothesise that, when airspace congestion is foreseen, prior to tactical administrative measures typically undertaken by the ATC (imposing ground delays on aircraft or/and rerouting), it is possible to use an economic-based mechanism - a modulation of ANS charges - to spread the traffic spatially/temporally in line with available capacities of ATM-network segments. In this thesis the method is proposed and a mathematical model developed for a user-centric strategic modulation of ANS charges, which resolves the demand-capacity imbalance on an airspace network, while imposing minimal negative economic consequences on airspace users. The results indicate that, under certain conditions, the imposition of a revenue-neutral matrix of sector-period-based tolls and subsidies on a congested airspace network may provide a sound economic-based alternative to presently employed tactical administrative demand management practices.