- 1-ALGORITHMS FOR MANAGING SECTOR CONGESTION USING THE AIRSPACE RESTRICTION PLANNER

This paper describes automated algorithms for applying restrictions to air traffic to prevent one or more sectors of airspace from becoming overloaded. We evaluate the merits of both heuristic and classical optimization approaches, and we identify tradeoff issues that affect the selection of a particular algorithm for the airspace problem. Our initial results show that a hybrid algorithm combining both classical and heuristic approaches works best.