A mathematical model suggestion for airspace sector design [Hava sahasi sektör tasarimi için model önerisi]

Airspace becomes crowded day by day because of the opportunities offered by technology in aviation. different types of aircrafts which are made for different purposes take place in the sky. so,to manage air traffic is getting much more harder. airspace sector design,in other words the determination of airspace area of responsibility is a special field of air traffic management problem. in order to obtain manageable sectors in terms of workload and controller capacity,air traffic authority decides the number of sectors to be divided. all aircrafts in a sector are controlled by a team of controllers and sector boundries can be changed when it is needed. therefore partitioning problem of airspace accurs which distributes airspace workload to the sectors as balanced as possible. in this study a vehiclerouting problem based mathematical model is proposed to obtain airspace sectors having balanced workloads among the sectors. the model depends on discretization of the air space into quadrangles through geographical reference system. by developed model a solution is founded for turkey's air space by using randomly derived workload scenario and it is shown that supposed method can be used successfully for air space sectorization.