Application to Flight Planning in Air Traffic Control Systems

Multi-objective optimization arises commonly in real-world applications such as automation controls, financial and scientific applications. In such an application, the outcome may be directly linked to cost, profit and/or many other inevitably conflicting criteria that have heavy impacts on the overall performance. An air traffic control system is such an example. In flight planning, air traffic controllers need to take into account different performance metrics or optimization objectives such as total flight distances, departure and arrival delays, system-level airspace congestion, stakeholders’ preferences, etc.