Research on Mechanical Operation with Sequencing Optimization of Arrival Aircraft in Terminal Area

In order to ensure flight safety and efficiently sequence arrival aircrafts in terminal area, a sequencing model for scheduling the sequence of arrival aircrafts in the terminal area was discussed. Model's objective is minimizing the loss of delays due to meeting separation which is used to keep the safety of aircrafts before and afterwards. Then the model is transferred to pure integer nonlinear program model so that the model can be solved by some program software like Lingo. At last, a numerical example is used to illustrate the process of solving the model. The numerical example shows that the model proposed in this paper is extremely efficient in scheduling the sequence of arrival flights compared with the FCFS (first come first served) algorithm and model used for the aircraft sequencing in the terminal area is feasible.