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January 3, 2023
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Performance Impact Assessment of Reducing Separation Minima for En-Route Operations

Publicated to: Aerospace. 9 (12): - 2022-01-01 9(12), DOI: 10.3390/aerospace9120772

Authors:

Pérez Maroto M; García-Heras J; Pérez Sanz L; Serrano-Mira L; Pérez-Castán JA
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Affiliations

Univ Carlos III Madrid, ETSI Aeronaut & Espacio, Leganes 28911, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, ETSI Aeronaut & Espacio, Plaza Cardenal Cisneros, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Author
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
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Abstract

The required minimum separation distance between aircraft is believed to be one of the limiting factors on airspace capacity. In recent decades, aircraft separation rules have been modified by progressively shortening the required minimum separation distance. Following this trend in the coming years, a further reduction in the minimum separation distance would be expected. Still, a thorough assessment of the impact of this action on air traffic management performance should be carried out before investing in a reduction of separation minima. A Monte Carlo analysis of the en-route Spanish airspace shows that it is worth reducing the en-route minimum separation distance from 5 NM to 3 NM. This paper shows that a separation minima reduction will bring significant fuel savings, flight delay reduction, air traffic controller workload drop, and overall improvement of safety.
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Keywords

air traffic managementconflict detectionseparation minimaAir traffic managementConflict detectionReduced separation distanceSeparation minima

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Aerospace due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 8/34, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Aerospace.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-21:

  • Google Scholar: 1
  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 2
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-21:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 7.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 7 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

    It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

    • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
    • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/86248/

    As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

    • Views: 102
    • Downloads: 16
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    Leadership analysis of institutional authors

    There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (PEREZ MAROTO, MARTA) and Last Author (PEREZ CASTAN, JAVIER ALBERTO).

    the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been PEREZ MAROTO, MARTA.

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