Super Density Operations (SDO) Highlights - Fiscal Year 2013
NASA researchers analyze the Terminal Tactical Separation Assured Flight Environment (T-TSAFE) tool
The Super Density Operations (SDO) research area continued to develop Terminal Tactical Separation Assured Flight Environment (T-TSAFE), a tactical conflict detection and resolution tool. T-TSAFE uses a combination of flight plan, nominal routing, terminal area procedures, dead reckoning, and flight intent to improve conflict prediction accuracy and reduce false alerts. NASA team members tasked Raytheon to identify the inputs available in STARS (Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System) that could be used by the T-TSAFE algorithm for a near term implementation. They identified that most of the inputs were either available or T-TSAFE had a work around for them. They identified a few flight-intent inputs critical to T-TSAFE performance such as nominal interior routes (routes connecting the arrival route to the runway) that are not available in the current version of STARS. However, these critical flight-intent inputs could be added as static files to the STARS software making the integration of T-TSAFE in STARS feasible in near-term. Next steps involve evaluating T-TSAFE performance with and without the near-term feasible flight-intent information available.
