Level 1

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Level 1 2 Outcome and Next Steps

• Paul Adamson
• Airport and Environment Business Division
• Airport Surface Management Safety Project
  Manager

European Organisation for the Safety of Air
Navigation
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EUROCONTROL Mission
To harmonise and integrate Air Navigation
Services in Europe, aiming at the creation of a
uniform Air Traffic Management System for civil
and military users, in order to achieve the safe,
orderly, expeditious and economic flow of traffic
throughout Europe.
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Eurocontrol Airport Operations Programme

• Consists of Four main projects
• Airport Surface Management and Safety (ASMAS)
• A-SMGCS
• Runway Safety
• Low Visibility
• Airport CDM Applications (A-CDM)
• Airside Capacity Enhancement (ACE)
• Wake Vortex
• Time frame 2007-2009

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A-SMGCS in Eurocontrol

• First Project (2002-2006)
• Levels 1 2
• Finished on time, Concepts and Requirements
  published
• Proposals sent to ICAO
• Second Project (2007-2009)
• Improve Levels 1 2
• First phase complete (feasibility studies)
• Second phase launched (work packages)

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Background
ICAO EUROCAE Documents
Airport Implementation
Support harmonisation
Eurocontrol Project
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Objectives
Levels 1 2
Concepts
Coordinate
Operational Use
Procedures
Benefits
Safety, Human Factors
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Project Organisation
A-SMGCS Project
Project Coordination Group
Stakeholder Workshops
ICAO EUROCAE EC
EUROCONTROL EATM/EEC
Runway Safety DMAN/AMAN
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A-SMGCS Level 1

• Surveillance procedures
• Replace Visual Observation
• Scope
• Aircraft on Movement Area
• Vehicles on Manoeuvring Area
• Cooperative non-cooperative
• SMR
• Mode S Multilateration
• ICAO/EUROCAE baseline

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A-SMGCS Level 2

• Level 1 Surveillance plus Runway Safety Net
• Conflicts on runways
• Incursion into restricted areas
• Alerts to Controllers
• Two classes of Alert
• Information
• Alarm
• Normal Low Visibility

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Validation

• Recognised Process (Master ATM European
  Validation)
• Simulations
• Operational Trials
• Seven Airports
• Two years

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ATC Simulation

• Validation Objectives
• Validate procedures
• ATCO Acceptance
• Assess benefits.
• CdG and Orly airports
• 2 Sessions Orly airport
• 3 sessions for CdG airport
• 16 ATCOs
• Compared
• SMR,
• Level 1 and
• Level 2

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Visibility Condition 2-3 Transition

• Objectives
• Assess ability to respond to traffic information
• Determine visibility below which no longer
  possible
• A340 Research Simulator
• Eight professional pilots
• One ATCO

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Operational Trials

• Verify validate Levels 1 2
• Safety
• Throughput
• Environment
• Three Contracts
• Heathrow, Zurich (ATC), Geneva
• Frankfurt, Vienna Zurich (AO)
• Paris CdG

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Validation Results

• Supported concepts procedures
• Validate Concepts
• Verify requirements
• Showed benefits
• Reduced workload
• Better detection of incidents
• Better planning
• Reduced delays
• See avoid threshold between 200 300m
  Visibility
• Used to develop Safety Case, Business Case etc.
• Basis of proposals to amend ICAO documentation

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Safety Case - Objectives

• Uses Eurocontrol Safety Assessment Methodology
• Develop
• Safety Objectives
• Safety Requirements
• Demonstrate Feasibility
• Full participation agreement of Stakeholders
• Basis of local Safety Case

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Safety Case Results
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Human Factors Case

• Highlight Human Factors Issues
• Demonstrate how addressed
• Areas for examination
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Training development
• Recovery from failure

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Business Case

• Recognised methodology
• Two European Scenarios
• Mid-size Airport (e.g. Orly)
• Large Airport (e.g. Frankfurt)
• Support implementation decisions
• Main results
• Up to 50 reduction in accidents
• 5 increase in throughput
• 5 reduction in taxi time
• 10 reduction in weather delay

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CBA Ratio Payback
Assumes implementation end 2007
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Level 1 Changes
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Level 2 Changes
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Achievements

• Agreed requirements documentation ?
• Agreed Procedures concepts ?
• Validation ?
• Safety Case ?
• Human Factors Case ?
• Business case ?
• Regulatory Impact Assessment ?
• Training guidance ?
• Update requirements documents ?

A-SMGCS Team
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Proposals to ICAO

• Proposals Comprise
• Operational Concepts
• System Requirements
• Procedures
• Impact upon
• A-SMGCS Manual (Doc.9830)
• EUR Regional Supplementary Procedures (Doc.7030)
• PANS OPS (Doc. 8168)
• Eventually, PANS ATM (Doc.4444)
• Accepted by EANPG

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Current A-SMGCS Activities

• Procedures for Level 1 in Low Visibility
• Improve Level 2 Safety Net
• Non-cooperative sensors
• Vehicle Guidance
• Automated detection of Debris
• Integration of DMAN/AMAN A-SMGCS
• Roadmaps

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Process
Follow On
Initial Project
Feasibility Study
WP XXX3..
Feasibility Study
WP XXX2..
Roadmap
WP XXX1..
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Roadmap

• Roadmap for the development of Integrated Airport
  Surface Safety Net
• Systems such as A-SMGCS Level 2 deliver
  significant benefits
• Suffer from deficiencies in performance scope
• Need to be upgraded
• Provides long term view towards the stepped
  development of improved airport surface safety
  nets

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Roadmap

• Roadmap for the development of Routing/Guidance
• Reduce misunderstanding
• Reduce route deviations
• Improve safety efficiency
• Provides long term view towards the stepped
  development of improved airport surface safety
  nets

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Work package

• Improvement of A-SMGCS Level 2 by lighting
  systems
• Goals
• Developing validating elements of ASL provide
  warnings to pilots/drivers, enabling
  considerable improvements in performance.
• Agreeing initial operational concepts
  specifications
• Preliminary validation through simulations
• Take into account similar activities in Europe
  USA
• Validated proposals with agreed benefits
• Proposal to ICAO

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Work package

• Improvement of A-SMGCS Level 2 through Electronic
  Flight Strips
• Goals
• Link Electronic Flight Progress Strips (EFPS) to
  A-SMGCS Levels 1 and 2
• Knowledge of ATC short term planning may enable
  considerable improvements in performance
• Operational Concepts Validation

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Work package

• Use of A-SMGCS in visibility conditions 3
• Goals
• Demonstrate and evaluate possible scenarios
• Identification of dependencies and prerequisites
  for the development of operational concepts
• Identify the scenario and concept with the
  highest potential for further development

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Work package

• Assessment of non cooperative sensors (including
  SMR)
• Goals
• Review and update provisions and guidelines
  relating to SMR
• Used as the basis for updating ICAOs SMR
  related provisions
• Provide seamless set of solutions from visual
  observation to A- SMGCS

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Work package

• Operational trials on A-SMGCS HMI in association
  with new runway procedures
• Goals
• Confirm the ability of ATC to determine that the
  runway has been completely vacated
• That holding points or an MLS Trigger Line
  have been crossed by all extremities of an
  aircraft (or vehicle), by reference solely to
  the A-SMGCS HMI
• Ability from the system to provide automatic
  vacated status

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Work package

• Automated Detection of Debris (FOD)
• Goals
• Requirement A-SMGCS concept
• Significant safety benefits
• Focus on runway
• Feasibility study of available technologies
• Agreed initial operational concepts and
  requirements procedures
• Validation through simulations operational
  trials

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Work package

• Vehicle Guidance (Navigation)
• Goals
• Significant Safety benefits
• Confirm Requirements
• Validate through simulation trials
• Assess benefits
• Human Factors, Training, Safety Case etc.

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Work package

• Integration of A-SMGCS Level 1 and A-CDM and DMAN
  
• Goals
• Development and validation of operational
  concepts and requirements
• Viewed as in initial step in the development of
  the planning function of A-SMGCS
• Usual Process-)

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Runway Safety

• Causal Factors
• Best practices
• Visual Aids
• Technology
• Training (ARM Course)
• Awareness
• Improve EAPPRI (and ICAO Manual)

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Summary

• Operational Focus
• Improve Levels 1 2
• Conform with ICAO Manual(s)
• Best use of RD
• Strong Cooperation with FAA, EC etc.
• Focus on Runway Safety
• Work with Stakeholders

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Implementation Package
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ANY QUESTIONS ?