Paper acceptance at the first US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium 2025

We are pleased to announce that our research paper “A Robust Optimization Approach for Dynamic Airspace Configuration” by Go Nam Lui, Guglielmo Lulli, Luigi De Giovanni, Martina Galeazzo, Iciar Garcia-Ovies Carro, and Rebeca Llorente Martinez has been accepted for presentation at the inaugural US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic. The event will take place on June 24-27, 2025.

Our paper introduces two innovative solution approaches for dynamic airspace configuration: an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) model and a more computationally efficient graph-based formulation using a permenance constrained shortest path algorithm. Both methods are extended to account for demand uncertainty, providing optimal configuration plans that are robust against possible traffic demand increases with different levels of protection.

The research evaluates the proposed approaches using real-world data from Madrid ACC, considering available configurations and traffic data from August 2024. Our computational study explores the critical trade-offs between minimizing traffic overflow and ensuring robustness, demonstrating that even moderate levels of conservatism can significantly impact traffic excess and resulting delays.

The US-Europe Air Transportation R&D Symposium is the premier event for ATM researchers, combining the former ATM R&D Seminar and the International Conference on Research in Air Transportation into an annual event starting in 2025. The symposium serves as the primary platform for sharing progress and disseminating cutting-edge ATM research findings within the global aviation community.

We look forward to sharing our findings with the international ATM research community in Prague!