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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)