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Report on two themes:
Airport Management
Weather & Environment
by: Jan Terlouw (NLR)
ATM 2003 Seminar, Budapest
June 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
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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
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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-theloop??)
– towerless airport
– ATM for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, etc.
• Investigate not only end states, also transition aspects
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‘Look forwards, not backwards!’
(John Andrews, MIT-LL)
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