An Approach for Three-Dimensional Sectorization in the Terminal Area Based on Airspace Function

Table 2

Comparison of operational benefits between the current sector and functional sector.

	Number of potential conflicts	Average sector flight time (s)	Traffic density variance	Average number of traversed sectors
Current sector	6890	250.10	38.16	2.78
Functional sector	3797	346.63	24.47	1.67
Percentage of improvement (%)	44.89	38.60	35.8	39.92