Optimal design of SIDs/STARs in TMA using simulated annealing

Abstract

In this study, we propose a Simulated Annealing (SA) method to solve the problem of designing multiple Standard Instrument Departure (SID) routes and Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STAR) in Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) with optimal lengths. This work extends our previous work (J. Zhou et al., 2015) for the design of one optimal route. The design of multiple routes addressed in this paper takes into account obstacle avoidance and routes separation as main constraints. Our preliminary numerical results show that the proposed SA method is effective in the generation of multiple routes in a TMA.