Remote Towers: What next and how to make the case
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Transcript of Remote Towers: What next and how to make the case
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Management and technology consultants
James Hanson
30 Sep 2015
Remote Towers: What next and how
to make the case
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• Do you know what equipment you really need?
• Do you know how many controllers you really need?
“Knowledge is power”: many airports lack ATC knowledge
• Does your provider work to optimise your operations?
ANSPs exhibit monopolistic behaviour
• Has the threat of a strike ever been a barrier to change?
ATC unions are extremely powerful
• Can you recover ATC costs from TNC?
Costs charged to airports and en-route users vary
• Does your provider share traffic risk?
ATCO supply is not as flexible as airline demand
Airport ATC is expensive
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• Better service?
• Lower cost?
• Both?
Remote Technologies change the value proposition
of ATC
Replaced
by Link
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Scenario 1:
Cost sharing
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Scenario 1: Multiple airports served from a single
remote centre, and even by a single controller
• Centralised TWR ATC can
deliver economies of scale
• in equipment
• in human resources
• Airports can share ATC
costs and other
responsibilities eg SAR,
etc
3:1 Multi-tower
concept1:1 Single tower concept
Remote Tower Centre
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Several remote tower centres are being deployed
RTC Leipzig: 3 airports
(Saarbrücken, Erfurt, Dresden)
RTC Dublin: 2 airports
(Cork, Shannon)
RTC Milan: 2 airports
(Milan Linate, Milan Malpensa)
RTC Bodø: 15 airports
(throughout Norway)
Kongsberg.com
RTC Sundsvall: Several Swedish
airports (initially Örnsköldsvik )
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Scenario 2:
Mobile towers
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Scenario 2: Camera mast can be easily relocated
and erected around the airport
Manage airport upgrades
Provide multiple perspectives of the same airport
Example: Budapest
Implementation
in Budapest
Images courtesy of HungaroControl
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Scenario 3:
Contingency
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Scenario 3: Contingency
• Business continuity
• Reduction in insurance premiums
• Manage operations at night
“States may wish to keep
vacated towers in condition for
eventual contingency operations”
EUROCONTROL Guidelines
for Contingency Planning of
Air Navigation Services
“Our business driver is to use it as a
business continuity option” (DANS)
LHR ‘windowless’
contingency
Hong Kong contingency
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Other
operations
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Other operations
• Improved low visibility
IR vision
• Additional safety layer
Surveillance overlay
Alerting & safety nets
• Detection of animals at night
Motion tracking
• Safety, capacity improvements
Prediction tools
• Simpler picture?3D
simulation
Image: Rheinmetall/Frequentis
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Investment case
Procurement
Regulatory approval
Staff issues
Impact on airlines
There are several hurdles to overcome
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Build up & share
knowledge in ATC
Consider joint procurement
Look at ATC assets
Who owns them? could they be operated by
others? When were they last
upgraded?
Review contracts with
ATC providers
How long are they? Are they
sufficiently prescriptive?
Would they allow Remote ATC?
Engage with regulators
early
What do they think of remote towers? Will the
tower market open up?
How can airports prepare for (or perhaps encourage)
the market?
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James Hanson
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