| Arrival,
ground & departure traffic management
Short Description
This area contains all expertise in relation
to managing arrival, ground and departure traffic. It ranges from
high level concepts to specific operational procedures and tools.
Challenges
One of the major bottlenecks in the air transport
system is the traffic on and in close vicinity of airports, specifically
at hub-airports. Many airports have no possibility to expand their
capacity by building new runways. Extra capacity should be found
by optimization of the current operations. The overall goal is to
increase punctuality and reduce delays and operational cost.
Activities
Typical activities in this field within
AT-One are the investigation of local practices, develop new
procedures, design support tools and validate the results.
The work is oriented at providing practical results and solutions
are implemented using prototypes. Operational procedures and
tools are thoroughly tested and validated in our advanced
simulators involving experienced Air Traffic Controllers and
other professional staff. Of course, performing benefit analyses
is an integral part of the work. After successful simulations,
procedures and tools are tested by conducting shadow mode
and life trials at actual airports.
AT-One also works on innovative long-term research
to provide answers for the problems of tomorrow. Examples
are highly automated Air Traffic Management systems and towerless
ATC.
Examples
- Trajectory based arrival
management (4D AMAN).
- Departure management (DMAN).
- 4D en-route management (EMAN)
for departing traffic (DM).
- Ground management advisory
and planning tools (SMAN).
- Runway configuration management.
- Runway allocation management.
- CDM tools for other parties,
especially Airlines, Handling Agents etc.
- Co-ordinators for AMAN DMAN,
DMAN-SMAN, DMAN-EMAN.
- Tools for pre-tactical planning
of runway configuration and assignment, capacity and flow planning.
- Standard interfaces and data formats for
basic management data, like flight plans, planning data, and configuration
data.
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