Air Traffic Flow selection of Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre radar traffic with the

SAAM tool

Student:

Artem Zhykharev

Institute of Air Navigation

IntroductionIn recent years, air traffic flow density is continuously growing very fast. That’s why, in the future, it will be complicated to provide qualitative air traffic control (ATC) for each aircraft. For this reason, an analysis is conducted about air traffic flow density. One of the best ways to conduct this analysis is to perform air traffic flow selection

Posibilities

to identify the busiest air traffic flows represent how air traffic actually flows by across the airspaceto find the busiest airspace volumes which have a great influence on ATC and on safety of aviation in generalgives information about the most efficient routes can help to enhance airspace designcan give statistical data of the number of flights

Flow selectionSAAM Tool

The air traffic flow selection can be produced with the help of the tool: “System for traffic Assignment & Analysis at Macroscopic level” (SAAM tool). ). The main function of such tool is to improve airspace and sector capacity. The SAAM tool uses the ‘.so6’ files which contain flight plan data and radar data of all air traffic flows. This data is provided by the Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU).

SAAM Tool

CFMU

.so6 files

Radar

SO6 file construction

The air traffic selection makes use of airspace gates in the SAAM tool. The airspace gate is useful for air traffic count in the corresponding airspace.

EDDF air traffic EHAM air traffic

Creation of airspace gatesDescription table

The name of a gate

The direction of a gate

The gate division by FL

EG1 From UK to MUAC Airspace

000>245>335>345>355>365>999>

From the ground to FL245From the FL 245 to FL335From the FL 335 to FL345From the FL 345 to FL355From the FL 355 to FL365From the FL 365 to infinity

EG2EK1 From Denmark to

MUAC AirspaceEK2ED1 From Germany

to MUAC Airspace

ED2ED3LF1 From France to

MUAC Airspace LF2LF3

Directions of each traffic flow

The workload taking into account the FL

The busiest gates of entry/exit into the MUAC airspace

ED1_33

5_34

5

ED1_35

5_36

5

ED2_24

5_33

5

ED2_34

5_35

5

ED2_36

5_99

9

ED3_33

5_34

5

ED3_35

5_36

5

EG1_24

5_33

5

EG1_34

5_35

5

EG1_36

5_99

9

EG2_33

5_34

5

EG2_35

5_36

5

EK1_24

5_33

5

EK1_34

5_35

5

EK1_36

5_99

9

LF1_33

5_34

5

LF1_35

5_36

5

LF2_24

5_33

5

LF2_34

5_35

5

LF3_24

5_33

5

LF3_34

5_35

5

LF3_36

5_99

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50

100

150

200

250

300The number of aircrafts crossed the gates

The name of the gates

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The entry/exit gates Airports

EK1_245_335 Schiphol airport

 EG1_335_345

London airports:Heathrow;Gatwick;Luton;

Stansted;London city.

ED2_245_335ED3_245_335 Frankfurt airport

LF1_245_335Paris airports:

Charles De Gaulle;Orly ;

Le Bourget.

Flow selection of the Frankfurt airport

For traffic arrives to Frankfurt airport: from the west (USA); from the London airports; from the west (Scotland, Iceland, Canada); from the north (Denmark, Sweden) from Schiphol Airport; from the Paris airports;

For traffic departures from Frankfurt airport: to London airports; to Schiphol Airport; to the west (Scotland, Iceland, Canada); to Paris airports.

Flow selection of the Schiphol airport

For traffic arrives to Schiphol airport: From the central and southern Europe

(Switzerland, Italy); From the Paris airports; From the Nordic European countries

(Denmark, Sweden, Norway); From Germany (Frankfurt, Munich); From Eastern Europe;

For traffic departures from Schiphol airport: To Frankfurt; To France; To the east; To the Nordic European countries

(Denmark, Sweden).

Thank for your attention!