DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2025_3_ 

Grigory A. Gasparyan

Abstract: This paper presents an enhanced method for detecting critical edges in spatial-temporal route networks based on complex network analysis. Unlike previous models, the proposed approach accounts not only for the topological characteristics of routes but also for their dynamic variability through a composite weight that includes the average travel speed and its variance. Additional metrics, such as load centrality and robustness of connectivity, are introduced. Critical edges are automatically identified via percolation analysis, without the need for manual threshold adjustment. For criticality prediction, a gradient boosting model is employed, using a set of structural and temporal features. The proposed approach ensures more accurate, reproducible, and adaptive identification of vulnerable segments in route networks and can be applied in real time to support air traffic management.

Key words: air transportation, airway network, complex networks theory, spatial-temporal network, critical link detection, network centrality, percolation theory.

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DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2025_3_ 

Nelli M. Romanenko

Eduard A. Bolelov

Anzhela S. Borzova

Abstract. The safety of ground traffic on the airfield movement area is largely determined by the effectiveness of airfield surveillance systems. Currently, radar surveillance systems are used to solve the tasks of monitoring and controlling ground traffic at the airfield. Despite their high technical and tactical characteristics, these systems are subject to the influence of natural and artificial radio interference, which can significantly limit their application for surveillance and traffic control, to the point of making the information unusable. A promising development is a vibroacoustic monitoring system, the functioning of which is based on other physical principles. However, vibroacoustic surveillance systems also have disadvantages, the main of which is the inability to observe a stationary object with the engines turned off. The urgent task is to combine existing and promising surveillance systems into a single integrated system in which the disadvantages of one surveillance system will be compensated by the advantages of another surveillance system. This article discusses the problem of synthesizing algorithms for complex information processing of object movement in the airfield movement area, with the possibility of reconfiguring information channels.

Keywords: integrated processing algorithm, ground movement, airfield movement area, mathematical model, airfield survey radar, surveillance system, multi-position surveillance system, vibroacoustic surveillance system.

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DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2025_3_

Alexander Yu. Knyazhsky

Sergey V. Baushev

Abstract. This article is the second part of the review of airspace planning systems. The first part provided a comparative analysis of known air situation models: network, probabilistic, load dynamics, expert, air situation development, potentials, entropy. The second part provides a comparative analysis of existing approaches to airspace planning: route synthesis, ATM load management, flight plans optimization, single air conflict resolution, departure/arrival flow planning. The advantages and disadvantages of the analyzed approaches are identified, their classification is proposed based on the physical meaning and completeness of the group.

Keywords: airspace planning, flight planning, air traffic safety, flight plans, air traffic management, air conflicts, air traffic control.

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DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2025_2_43

Vasiliy N. Ratushniak

Evgeniy N. Garin

Artem M. Mekaev

Andrey V. Lykho

Abstract. Due to the significant increase in the density of traffic flows, especially air ones, technologies of high-precision spatial determination of air objects are increasingly being introduced into ground-based radio engineering transport control systems. The article presents the synthesis and formation of the required directivity diagram of a small aperture antenna array of a vertical sounding radar (VS radar). The task of increasing the accuracy of measuring the angular coordinates of air objects and implementing super-resolution in a VS radar with a small-element antenna array requires solving serious problems associated, first of all, with the formation of the amplitude-phase distribution of the probing signal on the physical elements of the small-element antenna array in conjunction with virtual antenna elements, provided that the energy potential and signal-to-noise ratio at the receiver output are sufficient under conditions of a small antenna aperture and pulse power of the probing signal. The use of VS radar data as part of surveillance radars will ensure the overlap of the blind zone of the dead funnel of the surveillance radar, and thus form a continuous radar field in the upper hemisphere of space.

Key words: surveillance radar station, low-element antenna arrays, angular super-resolution, signal processing methods, radar application efficiency.

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