1. Report on two themes: Airport Management Weather & Environment by: Jan Terlouw (NLR) ATM 2003 Seminar, Budapest June 27, 2003
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2. Contents Background Weather & Environment Airport Management
Value of the seminar
General recommendations
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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)
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