Airports DEALING WITH CONGESTION ON THE GROUND

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AirportsDEALING WITH CONGESTION ON THE GROUND
EUROCONTROL Press Open Day Brussels, 17 November
2005
G. Paulson EUROCONTROL Director ATM Programmes
European Organisation for the Safety of Air
Navigation
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MAIN DRIVERS

• Safety
• Capacity, delay and airside efficiency
• Environment

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MILAN - LINATE
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European Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway
Incursions

• Recommendation areas
• General Principles
• Aerodrome Operator Issues
• Communications
• Aircraft Operator Issues
• ANSP Issues
• Data Collection and Lesson Sharing
• Regulatory Issues
• Aeronautical Information Management
• Future Work
• Safety Teams
• Out of 120 ECAC airports 91 have established
  runway safety teams

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Progress Runway Incursions
Reporting culture is improving
Severity of incidents is decreasing
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SAFETY NET DEVELOPMENT
EXISTING RUNWAY SAFETY NET
THE FUTURE?
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SAFETY

• Enhance existing safety nets
• Extend technology based safety nets to cover all
  of the airport movement area
• Target to reduce the number of serious runways
  incursions by 50 before 2009

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TRAFFIC IS SET TO GROW
2.5 growth factorif sufficientairport capacity

• Demand corresponding to 3.7 M flights/yr cannot
  take place
• More than 60 airports will be congested
• Top-20 airports will be saturated at least 8-10
  hrs/day

2.0 growth factor with max achievable airport
capacity
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Primary departure delay causes
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WHERE IS THE PROBLEM?
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AIRPORT SHARE OF DELAY SET TO GROW
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Improving airports
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TRAFFIC
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Surface Management
Low visibility procedures
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CDM
Latent capacity
Approach separation
Slot process Enhancement
CAPACITY
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2008
2005
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TARGET MAINTAIN AVERAGE ATM AIRPORT DELAY BELOW
ONE MINUTE
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Capacity the main initiatives

• Implement
• Capacity enhancement
• Assess and increase capacity
• Review separation standards
• Review wake vortex separations
• Airside efficiency
• Change airport slot practices
• Manage surface movements
• Airport network
• Facilitate regional airports
• Target
• Average airport ATM delay maintained at less than
  1 minute
• Satisfy the 2025 demand

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ENVIRONMENT

• THE CHALLENGE (PC MEDIUM TERM OBJECTIVE)
• Reduce aircraft noise and emission levels
• THE APPROACH
• Provide environment training and improved impact
  assessment tools
• Implement collaborative environmental management
• Implement impact reduction techniques such as
  continuous descent approach, airside capacity
  enhancement (ACE) and P-RNAV

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Airports New initiative

• Release latent capacity
• Enhance airside efficiency
• Facilitate regional airports
• Improve airside safety
• Reduce noise and emissions
• Target
• Satisfy the 2025 demand
• 1 min. delay
• 50 drop in runway incursions