Technical, Economical and Operational Assessment of an ATM Concept Achievable from the year 2005

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WHAT IS BEHIND TORCH?OPERATIONAL CONCEPT
DESCRIPTION

• Technical, Economical and Operational Assessment
  of an ATM Concept Achievable from the year 2005

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Summary

• Project Outline
• What is an Operational Concept?

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Project Outline
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TORCH Objectives

• Socio-economically, operationally and technically
  viable operational concept
• Enable the validation of the concept.
• Permit the identification of research actions.
• Schedule the implementation process.

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Consortium Structure
AIRLINES
IBERIA LUFTHANSA
SERVICE PROVIDERS
RESEARCH CENTRES
Aena DFS SCAA
Isdefe BPM EUROCONTROL EC
DG TRANSPORT
AIRBORNE EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS
AIRFRAME MANUFACTURERS
AEROSPATIALE
DERA SEXTANT Avionique
ATM SYSTEM MANUFACTURERS
AIRSYS ATM
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Project Budget Effort
TOTAL BUDGET 3.000.000 (50 funded by EC)
255 Man-Months
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Project Schedule
1999
2000
PHASE I Identification of the Operational Concept
PHASE II Assessment of the Operational Concept
PHASE III Summary of the previous work
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Project Outline 1/3

• Identify the operational concept
• Breakdown of the target concept
• Description of Socio-Economic, operational
  technological contexts and enablers
• Identification of Operational Procedures
• Selection of operational concept for assessment

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Project Outline 2/3

• Assess the selected operational concept
• Socio-Economically
• Operationally
• Technically

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Project Outline 3/3

• Summarise the work
• Describe an operational concept
• Speeds early implementation of the OCD Target
  Concept
• Ready for validation in the 5th Framework
  Programme

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What is an Operational Concept?
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Operational Concept
AN OPERATIONAL CONCEPT IS THE COMPREHENSION OF A
SOLUTION PROPOSED FOR THE EUROPEAN ATM SYSTEM.
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Hierarchy
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What can we expect from TORCH ?

• Operational Concept for ECAC area
• No system architecture and implementation
• Main operational elements
• Focusing on functional descriptions
• Includes all stakeholder viewpoints
• Representing the entire Gate-to-Gate process
• Based on OCD target concept statements
• Further developed

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Concept Statements
Example

• OCD Target Concept
• Collaborative and layered planning system
• Strategically co-ordinated
• Operating gate-to-gate
• TORCH Operational Concept
• From strategic planning to real time optimisation
• Daily Operational Plan
• Multi Sector Planning

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Operational Concept Areas of Focus

• From strategic planning to real time optimisation
• ATS Centre Planning and Operations
• Optimising Arrivals Towards Autonomous Aircraft