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BlueSky - The Open Air Traffic Simulator

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BlueSky is meant as a tool to perform research on Air Traffic Management and Air Traffic Flows, and is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.

The goal of BlueSky is to provide everybody who wants to visualize, analyze or simulate air traffic with a tool to do so without any restrictions, licenses or limitations. It can be copied, modified, cited, etc. without any limitations.

Citation info: J. M. Hoekstra and J. Ellerbroek, "BlueSky ATC Simulator Project: an Open Data and Open Source Approach", Proceedings of the seventh International Conference for Research on Air Transport (ICRAT), 2016.

BlueSky Releases

BlueSky is also available as a pip package, for which periodically version releases are made. You can find the latest release here: https://github.com/TUDelft-CNS-ATM/bluesky/releases The BlueSky pip package is installed with the following command:

pip install bluesky-simulator[full]

Using ZSH? Add quotes around the package name: "bluesky-simulator[full]". For more installation instructions go to the Wiki.

BlueSky Wiki

Installation and user guides are accessible at: https://github.com/TUDelft-CNS-ATM/bluesky/wiki

Some features of BlueSky:

Contributions

BlueSky can be considered 'perpetual beta'. We would like to encourage anyone with a strong interest in ATM and/or Python to join us. Please feel free to comment, criticise, and contribute to this project. Please send suggestions, proposed changes or contributions through GitHub pull requests, preferably after debugging it and optimising it for run-time performance.