Total Airport Management
as the Enabler for SESAR
Collaborative Airport Planning
Florian Piekert (DLR/AT-One)
Alan Marsden (EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre)
March 6th 2009EIWAC/ENRI workshop on ATM/CNS 2009

Motivation for a Change (I)Existing ATM system fragmentation in Europe¾ various ANSPs (~40) interact to control and steer
the Network.
¾ Airports currently are isolated islands in theAir Traffic Network, but¾ problems at one airport (adverse weather, industrial action,…) canaffect the entire network!
Lack of information sharing between network, airports and airport stakeholders¾ incomplete, outdated, partly unreliable, totally missing
Competing interests of airport stakeholders may worsen the situation
ATM system customers’ wishes are not implemented optimally
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Motivation for a Change (II)There is a need for¾ more dynamic and responsive ways to incorporate the customer‘spriorities,¾ pro-active instead of re-active planning in predicted bottleneck
situations,¾ fair and transparent means of handling competing interests at anairport,¾ improved predictability of the system „airport“ at and within thenetwork,¾ performance measurement with a common set of performanceindicators to drive a harmonization process between the differentairports‘ performances,¾…
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Motivation for a Change (III)
Performance-based airport operations enable a
performance-based Air Traffic Management system
Expected benefits¾ More efficient airport operations,¾ less operational costs,¾ environmental benefits (less fuel consumption, less CO2, …),¾ enabling of the system to cope with the future traffic demand.

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4Approach (I)Question: start a new system from scratch?
¾ Define new procedures for every stakeholder?
¾ Define new decision competencies and domains for everystakeholder?
¾…
¾ What is the possible acceptance level?

(Nearly) NONE.
The only possible approach can be:¾ Re-Use existing solutions as building blocks¾ Maintain decision domains
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Approach (II)Top-Down view:
SESAR prescribes a performance based ATM system.
Î Therefore, components of the ATM system need tooperate performance based!
Bottom-Up view:
How can the existing building blocks be evolved toenable them to be performance based?

courtesy of SJU/C.Meckiff

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Motivation for Total Airport Management (TAM) (I)

IMROFDELocal optimization
atNE

TNEMEVOPR

airport stakeholders

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Building blocks… Airport-CDM as a Baseline…

Collaborative Predeparture Sequence

CDM in adverse conditions

Collaborative Management of Flight Updates
The Milestones Approach

Variable Taxi Time Calculation

Airport CDM Information Sharing
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Motivation for Total Airport Management (TAM) (II)A-CDM
TNEMEVO
InformationSharing
RPM
I stakeholders
amongROF
DELocal optimizationatNE
airport stakeholdersFlorian Piekert – TAM as the enabler for SESAR CAP, ENRI EIWAC, Tokyo, 06.03.20099…but some problems are inherent
Planning

CDM is currently largely limited to the tactical phase. There is a lack of (pro-active)
pre-tactical and strategic planning between airport partners.

“Study of airport processes associated with… common
planning
process,common
situational awarenessand Guidelines, realDespite
being a pillarof the EUROCONTROLCDM Implementation
Data Sharing
time performancedata sharing is stillframework,
limited and therefore
pro-activitylimited,too.
commonas wellas thetools
tovisualise the predicted performance… as these do not exist
today, nor do the procedures”
Flexibility

Limited flexibility in response to real-time events.

SESAR (2.2.2) R&D Requirement 1
Still considerable “marketing” required to convince all airport partners of the benefits.
Shared vision Currently, almost no common performance indicators exist.

Where do we take Airport-CDM from here?
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Motivation for Total Airport Management (TAM) (III)

A-CDM

TAM
Joint Airport Operations
PlanningNT & Execution

EM
EVO
Information
SharingRPM
I stakeholders
amongROFDE
Local optimization
atNE
airport stakeholders

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From A-CDM to TAM – Expected Benefits
AgreedPerformance
Measures

Based on commonly agreed performance indicators, TAM
will allow for an assessment and visualization of future
airport performance.
Introduction of common databases and systems.

AgreedAirportConfiguration

This will allow operators to configure the airport accordingto agreed “scenarios” most applicable at the time ofdecision.

AOP:
Joint

AgreedPerformance
Targets

Improved
Predictability

Plan

Demand and capacity management are organized tomeet agreed performance targets for different timehorizons. Also able to change the performance objective.

Based on an environment which is designed around thephilosophy of information sharing. Past performance used
to identify future requirements.

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From A-CDM to TAM – Generic Requirements
AgreedPerformance
Measures

Common computer aided (performance) simulations.
Common monitoring leading to a more adaptive system.

AgreedAirportConfiguration

Representation of information via common displays basedon common data sources.
TAM
Requirements

AgreedPerformance
Targets

Creation, agreement and maintenance of the airport
operational plan (AOP) including performance trade-offanalysis.

Improved
Predictability

Common decision-making for a leading to a common
understanding of future system evolutions.

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Scope of TAM (time horizon)

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TAM – Specific requirements to be addressed
Who will be the main actors?
• Definition of their roles.
• Definition of their internal and external interfaces.

What events (alarms etc.) will trigger a decision?
What is the decision making process?
How are decisions fed into updating the AOP?
What data is required for TAM?
What technology support / public and private data support will benecessary?
What will be the key performance indicators?
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A TAM Prototype – DLR’s internal project FAMOUS
FAMOUS (“Future Airport Management Operational Utility System”) aims fora validation of the TAM concept (FAMOUS duration 2007-2010).
The FAMOUS Operational Concept Document (OCD) delivers¾Descriptions of the agents, their roles and their responsibilities,¾Design ideas for working positions for agents and a moderator,¾Ideas for alarm and event triggering by performance compliancemonitoring,¾Use Cases (CDM workflows),¾Flow of information and communication,¾Logical elements of AOP and NOP, Key Performance Indicators/Areas,¾The overall workflow within the Airport Operation Center (APOC).
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FAMOUS – Workflow in the APOC
Punctuality

Throughput

Emission

Cost / Efficiency

Connectivity

Stability of Operations

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FAMOUS - TAM Simulator Environment
TOP
ADCO

AMAN

DMAN

Decision Support Tools for APOC
Total Airport Management(TAM) Concept

Decision Making Processes inAirport Operations Center (APOC)
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FAMOUS – Technical Approach & Architecture
APOC Tools• TOP, TOP-Clients, TAPAS

Tactical planning support tools• SGMAN, TMAN, AMAN, DMAN, …

Simulation Environment (dynamic drivers/reality)• TRAFSIM, ASGARD, ATFCM, TOMICS, …

External systems• Lufthansa DAS, …
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FAMOUS – APOC system architecture

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FAMOUS – The World – Simulation Components
Central Database (SWIM)¾ enable dynamic APOC
operations within theFAMOUS experiments,¾ dynamic drivers are required
to provide the interaction with
¾the “outside World” and¾intra-stakeholder systems,¾ simulate real-life events andreactions on APOC planimplementation,¾ simulate components notemphasized within FAMOUS,
but required for completeness.
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FAMOUS - Outlook
Immediate next steps:¾Complete the integrated environment with APOC tools and dynamicsimulations.

Test- and Validation Campaigns¾April 2009: Episode-3 gaming exercises¾May 2009: LuFo4 WFF Lufthansa TAM validation trials¾July 2009: FAMOUS Phase I TAM validation campaign¾July 2010: FAMOUS Phase II TAM main validation campaign

Publicity¾TAM congress (October 2009 in Braunschweig)¾ATC Global 2010 (Integrated APOC demonstrator)¾FAMOUS Dissemination workshop end of 2010
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TAM – Further Sources of Information
World Wide Web
http://www.tams.aero/
http://www.dlr.de/fl/
http://www.eurocontrol.int/eec/public/standard_page/RA_Airport.html
http://www.sesarju.eu/public/subsite_homepage/homepage.html
eMailPeter Eriksen
EUROCONTROL Experimental Center
Business Area Manager
Airport Throughput
Peter.Eriksen@EUROCONTROL.INT

Florian Piekert
DLR, Institute of Flight Guidance
TAM Programme Manager
Department of Operations Control
Florian.Piekert@DLR.DE

Alan Marsden
Alan.Marsden@EUROCONTROL.INT

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