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Commercial flights rely on a set of internationally established airway. These airways
are defined as sequences of intersections (fixes), also internationally established.
This data can be found in various databases (see second URL link below).
The goal of this project is to develop a program to build route plans given a departure
and an arrival airport, while minimizing a given cost function. This cost
function is mainly distance, but should also account for other factors, namely
route complexity (how many changes of airways are necessary) and directionality
of certain airway segments. Recently the Portuguese space implemented free
routing, meaning that airlines can file a route plan consisting of a direct route from
the SID endpoint to the airspace exit fix. The project can also explore quantitatively
the benefits of employing such a policy, when compared with the traditional
airway-based routes.
