Integrated AirsideLandside Models of an Airport

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Integrated Airside-Landside Models of an Airport
Peter Eriksen EUROCONTROL Experimental Center
European Organisation for the Safety of Air
Navigation
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Surface Movement Management

• So far we have learnt that Surface Movement
  Management will
• improve safety
• reduce workload for ATC and in the cockpit
• increase airport capacity
• optimize taxi-times
• We are installing A-SMGCS with Safety Nets in
  major airports
• We will link AMAN-DMAN and A-SMGCS

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The airport in the air transport system

• Seen from EUROCONTROLs (and FAAs) point of
  view, the airport is a black hole that aircraft
  disappear into?
• The only problem is
• quite often they come back
• But nobody really knows where and when

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Future operational concepts

• The following issues are all par of future
  operational concepts
• 4D trajectories
• Accurate prediction
• Increased efficiency
• Reduced fuel-burn
• User preferred trajectories

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Future operational problems

• How does the user know what he prefers.
• How can he perform a trade-off between several
  scenarios?
• To reduce fuel-burn, I want to start the
  push-back as late as possible, but still assure
  that the aircraft can reach its take-off slot,
  to do that
• I need to be sure that the aircraft is ready for
  push-back
• I need to know the time to get from the gate to
  the runway.

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Future operational problems

• In SESAR we want to monitor the progress of the
  aircraft turn-round process
• What are the benefits of that?
• Increased efficiency
• Improved departure punctuality
• How can we demonstrate these benefits?
• We need a model.

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Airport Land-side modelling

• ACARE strategic aims for Europe
• Reduce passenger time in the airport (15-30
  minutes)
• Reduce delay (10 minutes average)
• by optimizing processes and increase efficiency

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Airport Land-side modelling

• The Airport Research Center (Aachen Germany)
  supported by EUROCONTROL has developed a model
  called CAST
• This was initially only covering the terminal
  building
• We are now developing CAST to cover all airport
  processes in an integrated way
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What can we do with CAST?

• Validation
• Look into the potential increase in efficiency
  when continuously monitoring the progress of all
  major processes
• Identify advantages of linking landside and
  airside processes
• Better understand the predictability we can
  achieve
• Operations
• Support airlines in their decision making by
  providing different scenarios
• Better understand the full effect of possible
  scenarios
• Better predict taxi-times and avoid bottle-necks

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How much is there to gain?

• Studies undertaken by the Performance Review
  Commission show that up to 20 of space capacity
  can be released in the en-route system without
  any cost if departure times could be estimated
  correctly