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Virtual Airspace Modeling and Simulation (VAMS)
The VAMS project was launched in response to projected air traffic growth and lack of sufficient future airport capacity in the nation’s air transportation system. To meet this capacity demand, alleviate flight delays, and improve the current air traffic system, the VAMS project supports the development of advanced concepts from industry and NASA. Project objectives include: assessing and identifying the benefits, risks, and limits of the current National Airspace System infrastructure; identifying transition challenges; developing potential operational concepts, architectures, and technology roadmaps to define the future air transportation system; and developing and establishing analytical and computational models and methods to enable safe investigation of operational concepts. Current proposals call for redesign of parts of the system, introduction of optimization and automation, and, in one case, complete system redesign. To determine the feasibility of each concept, the VAMS project is developing modeling capabilities for simulation and assessment. The VAMS project is setting the stage to analyze the technologies to double aviation system capacity, and develop and evaluate concepts to triple it within 25 years.
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