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Report on two themes:Report on two themes:
Airport ManagementAirport ManagementWeather & EnvironmentWeather & Environment
by: Jan Terlouw (NLR)by: Jan Terlouw (NLR)ATM 2003 Seminar, BudapestATM 2003 Seminar, Budapest
June 27, 2003June 27, 2003
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Contents
Background
Weather & Environment
Airport Management
Value of the seminar
General recommendations
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Background• Two themes:
– Weather & Environment (3 papers)
– Airport Management (9 papers)
• 7 US, 3 EU, 2 US/EU
• basic research (7), applied research (5)
• Session chairs:
– Christoph Meier (DLR)
– Wayne Briant (NASA)
– Steven Bussolari (MIT-LL)
• Interviews
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W&E: Goals
• Capacity: safely sustain airspace and airport capacity under all weather conditions (storms, wind, low visibility, etc.)
• Environment: minimise negative impact of air transport on the environment (emission, noise, smell)
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W&E: results (1)
Flight movement inventory (EEC, Volpe, FAA)• Result? Promising co-ordinated US/EU-activity
to create a single flight movement database• Users? Policy makers and climate change
scientists
• Issues? How accurate must the model be?
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W&E: results (2)
Multi-aircraft routing and traffic flow management under uncertainty (EEC):
• Result? Flow management tool to dynamically route multiple a/c under uncertain weather
• Users? Air Traffic Controllers and Airline Dispatchers / researchers
• Issues? Weather modelled as Markov Process because then LMI-toolkit can be used
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W&E: results (3)
Reducing severe weather delays with decision support for tactical controllers (MIT LL)
• Result? Providing information on storm severity, echo-tops and 0-2 hours forecasts has led to reductions in delays
• Users? Tactical air traffic controllers• Issues? Forecasting of vertical storm structures
important
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W&E: future R&D
• Understand meteorological phenomena
• Improve weather forecasting for ATM
• Study global emissions
• Understand societal impact of air transport
• Integrate weather, noise and emission measurement and forecasting products in Decision Support Tools
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W&E: recommendations
• Invited paper on noise abatement for ATM2005
• Europe should follow US-trend to carry out applied research with operators involved
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AptM: goals
• Capacity: increase throughput
• Safety: reduce incidents and accidents
• Environment: keep noise and emissions within acceptable levels
• Efficiency: reduce waiting times for passengers and freight operations
• General: accommodate new ways of airport use
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AptM: contributions
Increasing airport throughput: surface management system conflict detection on surface handling CFMU slots converging runway operations arrival/departure capacity trade-off
Special topics: Wake Vortex (3 papers) Terminal Separation Standards and Radar Performance
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AptM: Wake Vortex status
US/EU co-operation via FAA/Eurocontrol Action Plan 14
Increased interest in time-based rather than distance-based separation
Reported violations of ICAO standards at US airports do not imply unsafety, but rather confirm that static separation standards are too conservative
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AptM: future Wake Vortex R&D
Robust safety case Wake Vortex hazard definition Data collection Inventory of Wake Vortex models and tools Co-ordinated EU/US roadmap
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AptM: other future R&D
Improve capacity of today’s airports: Improve runway performance Increase all-weather capability Extend airport infrastructure with new
runway capacity
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AptM: other future R&D -2
Design airport of the future:• New airport lay-outs for the future• Innovative land-side operations• Interoperability between different modes of
transportation• Information sharing and Collaborative Decision
Making
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Value of seminar
• Unique conference with scientific spirit, good learning experience
• Development with operators involved usually most successful, both for researchers and ‘industry’
• Access of all papers via web very useful
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General recommendations
• More R&D needed on innovative concepts for future air transport, e.g.:– quantum leap through automation (human out-of-
the-loop??)– towerless airport– ATM for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, etc.
• Investigate not only end states, also transition aspects
‘Look forwards, not backwards!’(John Andrews, MIT-LL)