Report on two themes: Airport Management Weather & Environment by: Jan Terlouw (NLR) ATM 2003 Seminar, Budapest June 27, 2003 27 June 2003

Contents Background Weather & Environment Airport Management Value of the seminar General recommendations 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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) 27 June 2003

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? 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

W&E: recommendations Invited paper on noise abatement for ATM2005 Europe should follow US-trend to carry out applied research with operators involved 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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 27 June 2003

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) 27 June 2003