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Contents Background Weather & Environment Airport Management Value of the seminar

Report on two themes: Airport Management Weather & Environment by: Jan Terlouw (NLR) ATM 2003 Seminar, Budapest June 27, 2003. Contents Background Weather & Environment Airport Management Value of the seminar General recommendations. Background. Two themes:

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Contents Background Weather & Environment Airport Management Value of the seminar

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  1. Report on two themes:Airport ManagementWeather & Environmentby: Jan Terlouw (NLR)ATM 2003 Seminar, BudapestJune 27, 2003

  2. Contents Background Weather & Environment Airport Management Value of the seminar General recommendations

  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

  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)

  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?

  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

  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

  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

  9. W&E: recommendations • Invited paper on noise abatement for ATM2005 • Europe should follow US-trend to carry out applied research with operators involved

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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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