Essay December 2025
Aircraft Traffic Control: Managing Order in a Crowded Sky
↳ Scholarly blog post (Zenodo archived)
// abstract
A conceptual overview of Air Traffic Control framed as a predictive, safety-critical control system — connecting the principles of separation, sequencing, and flow management to the language of estimation, decision-making, and control that underpins my research on autonomous airspace operations.
// highlights
- Frames Air Traffic Control as a predictive, safety-critical control system.
- Bridges classical ATC concepts with estimation, decision-making, and control for autonomous airspace.
// cite
Recommended citation
Zongo, A. (2025). "Aircraft Traffic Control: Managing Order in a Crowded Sky." Scholarly blog post. Available at: https://alex-zongo.github.io/posts/2025/12/aircraft-traffic-control/.