Recent Advances for Smart Air Traffic Management: An Overview

With the development of the civil aviation industry, the pressure carried by the air traffic management (ATM) system, which is the core of civil aviation operations, is also gradually increasing, and therefore, it is necessary to use the power of various emerging information technologies to build a smart air traffic management system, thereby improving operational efficiency while ensuring safe operation of air traffic management. In recent years, the research of smart air traffic management has become a hot topic in academic circles, supported by industry guidance units such as the Civil Aviation Administration and the Air Traffic Management Bureau, and scholars at home and abroad have conducted relevant explorations on smart air traffic management. The paper comprehensively analyzes the research results of smart air traffic management in recent years, and for cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile Internet, five most important emerging information technologies, the research progress of combining with smart air traffic management is analyzed, meanwhile, proposed the shortcomings of the existing research and the suggested research directions for the next step, provide reference for further research on smart air traffic management.