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DLR/EECTotal Airport Management

Christoph Meier & Peter Eriksen

European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation

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Or…

Where do we take Airport CDM from here?

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Today’s problem

•Lack of collaborative strategic planning between Airport partners

•Limited facilities for real-time data sharing

•Inflexible responses to real-time events

•Inability to exploit potential for efficienceand capacity gains offered new capabilities

Even with Airp

ort CDM in

place

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Airport CDM

TAM is an extension of Airport CDM

Airport CDM will improve today’s situation,

but there are certain shortcomings:

- CDM is limited to the pre-tactical phase (+2 hours)

- There is no support of analytical tools

- CDM provides limited understanding of system wide impact of decisions

- CDM has limited use of common performance indicators

…but Airport CDM is still a big step forward

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Stakeholders need….

•optimised arrival and departure rates for sustained periods

•improved predictability of all airport processes

•sufficient flexibility to accommodate real-time events

•environmentally suitable and acceptable operations

•understanding of trade-off possibilities

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What is TAM?

TAM considers the airport holistically as one node of the overall air transport network.

In order to ensure an overall Quality of Service (QoS) of an airport to the customers and to the air transport network, TAM concentrates on the initial strategic and pre-tactical planning phases using the most accurate information available, followed by the monitoring (and when required, reactive planning) of the tactical working process.

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Collaborative planning

processes assuring equity

and flexibility

How will TAM work?

Based on commonly

agreed performance

indicators

Allowing for Airport

Configuration and

management based

on agreed

performance targets

Modeling and visualisation of

airport processes to allow for

common understanding of

future scenarios

Looking minutes,

hours, days,

weeks or months

ahead

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Expected Benefits

Improved predictabilityResources can be used more efficiently, keeping sufficient flexibility to cater for the unforeseen

More transparencyCooperative negotiation and equity for all stakeholders

Trade-off With direct involvement of stakeholders in determining performance targets

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Problems addressed by TAM

Poor global flow of information:A deficit of information exchange between subsystems is caused due to no common information system

Global goal neglect and conflicting interests:Subjective interests of stakeholders follow a local cost-benefit analysis before information exchange is supplied and restrictions are accepted

Complexity increase:Problems of complexity increase, focusing on global goals. More system parameters and dependencies have to be considered

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Scope of TAM (time horizon)

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Scope of TAM (spatial)

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Instantiations of TAM (1/2)

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Instantiations of TAM (2/2)

• De-Centralised APOC

• Centralised APOC

• APOC by Hand

• Remote APOC

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Generic Management Cycle

Situation Assessment & Diagnosis

Plan GenerationPlan Implementation

Coordination & Communication

Management Cycle: Closed sequence of thinking and actingat a particular management level

Task, Targets

Tasks, Targets

Information

Functions:

Situation Assessment & DiagnosisPlan GenerationPlan ImplementationCoordination & Communication

Management ProcessElements:

Tasks / TargetsInformation

Additional Information, Data

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Information

Additional Information, Data

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Human Centred Automation

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Joint Airport Operations Plan (AOP)

Performance Targets

Flow Targets

Resource-Event Targets

Static Constraints Dynam. Constraints

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AOP Dynamics

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AOP Lifecycle

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Functional Architecture of TAM

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Representatives (agents) in TAM

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Fundamental Roles in APOC

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Decision Making Process

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Summary, Status and Outlook

TAM is the Vision, Airport CDM the solid starting point Performance based airport needed to enable performance based ATM “Total” means airside and landside & adhoc to strategic time horizon Proactive, layered guidance based on C4I principles Tools supporting dynamic, repetitive planning results in joint AOP Human centred automation Different APOC Instantiations possible Integrating existing approaches like A-SMGCS, xMAN, CDM…

Initial concept document jointly developed by DLR and EEC Initial Validation Exercises planned for EC FP-6 Episode 3 Effort in DLR and EEC to be continued FP7 / SESAR might be platform for large scale validation