A global view on the alignment of world-wide air traffic

In 2016, DLR launched the project World Wide Air Traffic Management (WW-ATM). The project creates a platform for optimization and validation of world-wide concepts considering feasibility, throughput, costs- and ecological efficiency, and robustness respectively fault liability. To allow seamless operations, the project aims to handle world-wide scenarios. This paper describes the basic WW-ATM concept, focusing on the creation of a realistic world-wide air traffic scenario with more than 105,000 flights for one day.