Airfield Ground Lighting Safety & Capacity Enabler

Airfield Ground Lighting Safety & Capacity Enabler

Airport Eco-System

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Airport Customers

• Passengers• Baggage• Cargo• Aircrafts

Airport Elements

• Runways• Taxiways• Apron Area• Pax Terminal etc.

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Capacity DelaysLevel of Service

Safety

Security Emissions Noise Cost

Airport management is a complex business: many customers, providers, authorities and airport elements are involved and they do have conflicting interests.

Airport managers have to evaluate the impact of the proposedsolutions (scenarios) in several key performance areas, considering all the stakeholders.

Inefficiencies in Ground Operations

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• Annually, at major airports in the United States

(2009 ASPM)

– Over 32 million minutes taxi-out delay (over

unimpeded times)

– Over 13 million minutes taxi-in delay (over

unimpeded times)• Terminal-area volume responsible for 19% of delays at OEP

35 airports in 2009

– Aircraft in Europe are estimated to spend 10-30%

of their time taxiing [Airbus 2008]

– A short/medium range A320 expends as much as

5-10% of its fuel on the ground [Airbus 2008]

– Taxiing aircraft contribute to surface emissions as

well as noise

Increased Taxi Times, Fuel Burn, Emissions

Needs of Airside Operations


• A-CDM (Airport Collaborative Decision Making)• Unambiguous communications• Runway entrance control• No confusing lights• Less stop and go• Continuous taxi speed• Improved controller efficiency• Optimizing the use of available infrastructure• Robust A-SMGCS (Advance Surface Movement

Guidance and Control Systems)

Towards Optimized Ground Operations

Total Airside Management Concept


Airports Process

AMAN – Arr Manager DMAN – Dep ManagerSMAN – Surface Manager TMAN – Terminal ManagerEMAN – EnRoute ManagerASMGCS – Advanced Surface Movement Guidance & Control System

Pre-tactical 30min…3hr

Tactical 30min

Adhoc Now

Situation Assessment

Monitor & Control

A-SMGCS Surveillance

A-SMGCS Alerting

E2E Turnaround Monitor

Traffic Monitor

Total Operations

Planner

AMAN

TMAN

SMAN DMAN

EMAN

Ground Guidance

Onboard Guidance

Source: DLR

More Predictable & Efficient Operations

Airside Impact


Positions & Identities (Trajectories) of all Objects at the Airports

e.g: Aircraft, Vehicles, Baggage, Cargo, Pax…

Events according to one holistic Process Model, “LH263 landed”, “Last

Pax Boarded”,….

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Airport Milestone Plan including E2E Process Target Times and

Resource Usage Plan

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Source: DLR

Performance Driven Management

A-SMGCS Level as Defined by ICAO


A-SMGCS Level

Surveillance

Control

Conflict Prediction and / or Detection

Conflict Analysis

Conflict Resolution

Routing

Guidance

Painted Center Lines / TGS

Fixed Center Line Lights

Manually Switched Center Line Lights

Automatically Switched Center Line Lights

Onboard Guidance for Vehicles and Aircraft

I II III IV V

Carried out manually by Controller or Pilot / Driver

Carried out automatically by the System

State of the art and recommended by Honeywell

Optimized Ground Management

Towards Optimized Ground Operations

Delivery Safety, Capacity & Predictability


Controller(Human Machine

Interface)

Routing andPlanning

Planning Rules and Parameters

Guidance(Airfield Ground Lighting)

Planned Routes

Objects

Control of Lights & SignsData Link to Co-op Objects

Control(Monitoring, Alerting)

Planned Routes

SurveillanceCoop Non Co-op

Sensor FusionData Acquisition

Echoes, Replies, Broadcast

Location, IdentificationVelocity, Heading

Deviation fromPlanned Routes

Conflict Resolution

Voice Communication

Warnings, Alerts

Surveillance Results

Stop Bar or TXC Switching

ArrivalManagement

(AMAN)

DepartureManagement

(DMAN)

AerodromeManagement

AirlineManagement

Surface Manager(SMAN)

Airside System Integration Architecture


Total Airside Management System

A-SMGCS Guidance with AGL

Runway Functions (Safety)


• Runway Protection– Time to touch down in an ‚Impending Arrival‘ arrow– Automatically switching on and locking of runway stop bars 30

sec before touch down– Show runway as occupied– Automatically switch off stop bars behind landing aircraft– Automatically switch off all stop bars, if aircraft slower than

80km/h• video scene

– Smart Runway Protection Automatically switch on runway stop bar in front of aircraft for line up

or crossing runway• video scene

Taxiway Functions (Safety)

• Aircraft separation (blocking) under CAT II/III

• Under weather condition CAT II/III there is always one switched on stop bar between two aircrafts video scene

Taxiing with Guidance by TXC and STB; Fog

Picture Source: Atrics GmbH

Individual Routing (Capacity)

• Automatic Individual Routing

• An optimal route (with relation to distance) is shown for each individual aircraft which has a stand or runway as destination

• On a landing aircraft the runway exits are switched on into the direction of the destination

• The route for each pilot is displayed with taxiway center line lights

• The route ends at a switched on stop bar, an aircraft which drives in front, at the border of an area of responsibility, at the destination

– video scene

• If a pilot leaves his assigned route a ‚route deviation‘ alert is generated and as soon as possible a new optimal route is calculated and displayed to the pilot

– video scene

Individual & Collective Routes

• Individual routes consider restricted areas (Safety)

• Restricted areas are considered by individual routes video scene

• Collective route for lot of aircrafts and displayed through the taxiway center line lights

Taxiing with Guidance by TXC

Picture Source: Atrics GmbH

Key Benefits


• Safety – 70% less incursions– Prevention of Runway Incursion with increased situational awareness for pilots

• Efficiency & Environment– Continuous Taxi Speeds – pilot maintain speed at intersections– Reduced Handover delay – frequency is free from continuing taxi clearance– Improved Traffic Sequencing – More time for planning by reduced workload– Smooth Flow of Traffic – No route deviations or holding position overruns

• Capacity – Up to 15% increase and corresponding reduce in delays– Increased LVP Taxiway throughput – Automated provisioning of longitudinal

separation

• Cost Effectiveness– Increased Controller Productivity – Handle Traffic growth without additional

resources– Economic use of lighting equipment – Reduced lamp burning and replacements

SESAR-JU “Follow the Green” Results


• Increased FLIGHT CREW’S

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (>Factor 3) • Pilots see a potential in further

improving SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

by providing information on sequences

and stop reasons, e.g. via GMG • Reduced FLIGHT CREW’S WORKLOAD

(>50%) • Reduced FLIGHT CREW’S

FRUSTRATION LEVEL (less ambiguity) • Very good USABILITY values (easy to

understand and credible) • Increased SAFETY (4 route deviations

in pre-SESAR, none with AGL) Source: SESAR AGL Validation

SESAR-JU “Follow the Green” Results


• Reduced TAXI TIMES (>37% in low-vis,

>17% in CAVOK) • Increased TRAFFIC FLUENCY (> -65%

stops in low-vis, > -40% in CAVOK) • Reduced FUEL BURN (>40% in low-

vis, >18% in CAVOK) • Reduced EMISSIONS (>40% in low-vis,

>20% in CAVOK) • Improved AIRPORT TAXI

PERFORMANCE (~100% performance

in low-vis) • Reduced MOVEMENT DELAY (>50%

time reduction TXR to movement) • Reduced COMMUNICATION EFFORT

(~50% reduction of R/T time) Source: SESAR AGL Validation

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