Airport Planning

Research and Development

Presented to: Airport Safety R&D 

By: Holly Cyrus, Project Manager

Date: August  12 &13, 2014

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Airport Planning (RPD 132)

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FAA’s Airport and Airspace Simulation Model Enhancements

Engine Version 
        - Version 4.0 was released in                  March 2013 with 30 additional enhancements.
        - Version 4.1 was released in September 2013 with about 27-29 additional enhancements.
        - Version 4.2 was released in March 2014 with about 20 additional enhancements.
        - Version 4.3 will be released in September 2014 with about 17-19 additional enhancements.

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FAA’s Airport and Airspace Simulation Model Enhancements

Engine Version  4.2 was released the end of March 2014 with 20  enhancements. 

Summary:
        - Improved arrival staging and departure staging logic
        - Enhancements to the single-direction taxipath function
        - New gate selection algorithm
        - Enhancements when switching runway configurations
        - Improved error detection to reduce processing time 
        - Various bug fixes

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FAA’s Airport and Airspace Simulation Model Enhancements

Engine Version  4.3 will be released in September 2014 with 17-19  enhancements. 

Summary:
        - User friendly method to input airspace speeds
        - Arrival staging enhancements
        - Final approach & runway utilization improvements
        - User friendly output statistics 
        - Many bug fixes/logic enhancements

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Develop Processes to Incorporate use of PDARS Data

PDARS Analysis Program:
        - To be used to compute average speed and average altitude
        - Over 90% completed

The FAA’s Airport & Airspace Simulation Model is being used by Landrum 

& Brown to simulate the Charlotte International Airport.
        - CLT: Analyzing runway construction scenarios

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FAA’s Airport and Airspace Simulation Model Enhancements

Next six months: 
        - ?Model enhancement – implement new process to assign air speeds  Data from PDARS analysis.  Improves accuracy, reduces input process time
        - Model enhancement – Continue to support users who submit enhancement requests for airport capacity studies
        - Execute PDARS analysis program to collect and analyze airspace data for at least six airports
        - Continue to develop animation software for FAA simulation model?

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Building Airport Database

Next six months: 
        - ?Obtain ASDE-X data for further analysis.  This data allows us to look at more days than we could with data collection
        - ASDE-X data used to determine runway utilization, runway loading, runway exit probabilities, runway occupancy times, taxiway utilization, taxiway routes, and taxiway speeds?

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Building Airport Database

Next six months: 
        - ?A major rewrite of the program that processes ASDE-X data is underway
        - New version does a better job of collecting data on smaller aircraft
        - Improved system for understanding the airport’s taxiway system
        - Creation of a database to assist in the processing of data
        - Create Google Earth’s “kml” files to view any or all of the flights by airline, aircraft type, etc?

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Improving Digitization of Airports

Next six months: 
        - ?Continue updating database with new runways, taxiways, gates, etc. for digitizing of airports

Build Airport Latitude and Longitude
        - Obtain GIS data for airports
        - Establish KSN site to transfer data
        - Will improve airport database and digitization into simulation models?

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Questions or Comments?

Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov,  Visual Guidance Engineer

Jennifer.Morris@faa.gov, Manager, Capacity Analysis

Office of Performance Analysis and Strategy

Andrew.Lamb@faa.gov, Software Engineer

John.Zinna@faa.gov,  Software Engineer

FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center

Airport Safety Technology R&D Section

ANG-261, Building 296

Atlantic City International Airport, NJ  08405