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<p>The paper describes the concept of a Digital Twin (DT) creation, which could be used as part of a centralized ground traffic control system in the airport’s apron area. The work is focused on the automatic control systems expected in the future, which will completely replace the ground traffic controllers that solve the centralized control’s tasks in our days. It is assumed that the developed DT can be used both at the stage of training the control system and at the stage of its use. A special feature of the proposed DT concept is the clearly formulated principles of the observed process’ time discretization and the space in which the movement of ground vehicles and aircraft occurs. The experimental verification of the developed concept was carried out using a special simulation model designed to generate data streams on the airport’s transport network’s traffic participants’ location.</p>
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The paper describes the concept of a Digital Twin (DT) creation, which could be used as part of a centralized ground traffic control system in the airport’s apron area. The work is focused on the automatic control systems expected in the future, which will completely replace the ground traffic controllers that solve the centralized control’s tasks in our days. It is assumed that the developed DT can be used both at the stage of training the control system and at the stage of its use. A special feature of the proposed DT concept is the clearly formulated principles of the observed process’ time discretization and the space in which the movement of ground vehicles and aircraft occurs. The experimental verification of the developed concept was carried out using a special simulation model designed to generate data streams on the airport’s transport network’s traffic participants’ location.

Time and Space Discretization in the Digital Twin of the Airport Transport Network

Transport and Telecommunication Journal

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The paper describes the concept of a Digital Twin (DT) creation, which could be used as part of a centralized ground traffic control system in the airport’s...

Time and Space Discretization in the Digital Twin of the Airport Transport Network

Published Online: Jun 22, 2021

Page range: 257 - 265

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2021-0019

Keywords
airport, ground traffic, centralized control, digital twin, simulation

© 2021 Farid Saifutdinov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Time and Space Discretization in the Digital Twin of the Airport Transport Network

Published Online: Jun 22, 2021

Page range: 257 - 265

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2021-0019

Keywordsairport, ground traffic, centralized control, digital twin, simulation

© 2021 Farid Saifutdinov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
airport, ground traffic, centralized control, digital twin, simulation