Traffic Flow Impact (TFI) Tool
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Category: Software/Services
Developers: MIT Lincoln Laboratory MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-Developers: Federal Aviation Administration
United States
Product Description:The Traffic Flow Impact (TFI) Tool provides guidance to air traffic control managers on potential airspace flow rate reductions on high-use air traffic routes during times of convective weather.
Developers: MIT Lincoln Laboratory MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Co-Developers: Federal Aviation Administration
United States
Product Description:The Traffic Flow Impact (TFI) Tool provides guidance to air traffic control managers on potential airspace flow rate reductions on high-use air traffic routes during times of convective weather.
This figure shows the Traffic Flow Impact display which depicts the forecasted reduction in air traffic flow through an area over central Pennsylvania designated ZNY001. The impact of convective weather on critical volumes of airspace can be expressed categorically as shown in the color-coded table at the bottom of the figure (red meaning high impact, yellow meaning medium impact, and green meaning low impact), and as a permeability profile that represents a percentage of a maximum clear-weather throughput for a given airspace region as shown in the top left corner.