1. Collaborative Decision Making “Collaborative Tools and Technology”
Module 6
“Collaborative Tools and Technology”

2. Data sharing leads to reductions in
controller and support staff workload
and improves cost efficiency
by working smarter not harder.

3. CDM Collaborative Tools
Common situational awareness between stakeholders and ATC allows for integration of data from all sources to make a “Better” decision
Integration of ATC and airline data to provide the “Big Picture”
Customers participate in the daily management of the NAS through:
- Participating in daily weather assessment
- Common Constraint Situation Display (CCSD)
- Planning Telcons – conducted every two hours
- Representatives located at the ATCSCC
- Direct access to the Tactical Customer Advocate
- FAA management access through daily customer telcons
- Participating in regular system improvement meetings

4. Mexico CCFMEX: PROSAT

6. Brazil: SYNCROMAX 
SYNCROMAX DEMAND AND CAPACITY ANALYSE

7. South Africa CAMU

8. South Africa CAMU

9. South Africa CAMU

10. Flight Schedule Monitor (FSM)
EWR Pre-Demand Levels
Flight Schedule Monitor (FSM)
EWR Pre-Demand Levels
Flight Schedule Monitor - A major component that works with the TFMS technology. The FSM is the main tool for
traffic management specialists at the Air Traffic Control System Command Center to monitor, model and implement
Ground Delay Program (GDP) operations. From both a technological and operational aspect, FSM represents the
results of efforts realized by Collaborative Decision Making. These tools allow for the monitoring of traffic flows and evaluation of capacity and demand. FSM provides common situational awareness to FSM users by presenting airport demand and capacity information both graphically and through text.
Collaborative Convective Forecast Product (CCFP)
Cornerstone weather forecast for strategic planning
-- On TSD
-- Also on Aviation Weather Center Internet site at aviationweather.gov
-- Provides common situational awareness and improves coordination and communication
-- Collaborative process involving AWC, CWSUs, airline meteorologists, and Canadian meteorological services
The TSD and CCFP allow traffic managers to evaluate the current and predicted convective weather scenario.

11. EWR after GDP issued:

12. Flight Schedule Monitor (FSM)
Since system-wide usage began in 2000
FSM has…
Reduced delays by 36 million minutes
Saved 400 million liters of fuel
Cut CO2 emissions by over a million tones
Produced cost savings of over $4 billion
Thus the initial business case was made for developing CDM-based ATFM. The FAA’s real-time collaborative traffic flow management system called Flight Schedule Monitor (FSM) was developed by Metron Aviation and successfully tested in San Francisco and Newark. FSM enabled a CDM community with a new level of common situational awareness and advanced ATFM decision support. Thus began the CDM paradigm. The door was opened; only a crack, but it surely portended great things into the future. Since system-wide usage began in 2000, FSM has reduced delays by 36 million minutes, saved 400 million liters of fuel, cut CO2 emissions by over a million tones and produced cost savings of over $4 billion. The deployment of the FSM platform was strategically important because it created a shared platform for numerous future collaborative functions. One such early innovation was the so-called ‘enhanced substitution module’ which allows airlines to make slot substitutions to optimize their operations. The primary benefits to airlines are a reduction in ATC delay and the ability to prioritize flights based on
the airline’s business goals. This translates directly into cost savings for the carrier. Daily savings for a hub carrier
at a single regulated airport can easily reach dozens of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars. FSM also began to show even a skeptical workforce that open cooperation could benefit every stakeholder and overcome organizational barriers to success. For example, there were cultural challenges including a historical bias where some carriers would try to game the system, thus undermining traffic flow programs and resulting in less favorable system performance. So the FAA gave the entire CDM community a web-based FSM reporting tool that highlighted anyone who cheated by leaving early or late or even flying a cancelled flight. With this shared transparency, the traffic management team, controllers and airlines were able to maintain operational
compliance and this type of gaming misbehavior quickly ceased, resulting in a dramatically more accurate
and predictable flow.

13. Operational Information System: OIS

14. Traffic Situation Display: TSD
Traffic Situational Display - Updated every minute, this program converts data from radar and other sources into
a customizable screen capable of showing every aircraft in the sky at any given minute. TSD’s computer system
receives radar track data from Air Route Traffic Control Centers, organizes this data into a display and presents it on
a computer screen to monitor any number of traffic situations or system-wide traffic flows. The user has the option
of superimposing these aircraft positions over any number of background displays. These background options include
ARTCC boundaries, any stratum of en route sector boundaries, fixes, airways, military and other special use airspace,
airports and geopolitical boundaries.

15. Results quickly confirmed the
anticipated benefits of sharing real-time
data among users.
Tests have been conducted by gathering airline dispatch personnel, controllers and traffic management coordinators in a real-time simulation environment. The cross-functional teams would run through “what-if” scenarios and use statistical models to evaluate total system optimization. The results quickly confirmed the anticipated benefits of sharing realtime data among previously disparate systems and users. Importantly, the team demonstrated the need for far fewer ground delay programs, and when they were necessary, the time parameters could be greatly reduced.