Air Traffic Management: Future Prospects and Strategies

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Air Traffic Management Future Prospects and
Strategies

• Yasmine El Alj
• Stephan Wilde
• Markus Witte

Nuria Margarit Dorthe Windeck Angela Won

• Julia Griese
• Margarita Marinova
• Alexander Zock

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Infrastructure/ Regulations
• Market Mechanisms
• Operations/ Technology

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What is Air Traffic Management (ATM)

• ATM provides for safe, orderly and expeditious
  flow of air traffic both in the air and on the
  ground
• Division of airspace
• Vertical (upper/lower airspace, approach) and
  horizontal (regional/national)
• Defined flight routes and beacons for navigation
• Controllers optimize trajectories

Source Recherche ENAC
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Current European ATM situation
Constraints in Capacity
Unilateral Cost Burden

• Large military airspace
• Low ATC productivity
• No growth potential
• Full skies

• Non-negotiable ATC
• charges
• Risk-free ATC

• Lufthansas Motivation for Change
• Growth Strategy
• Stay Cost Competitive
• Drive innovation

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Infrastructure/Regulation
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Potential ATM development

• Today
• Organization
• Monolithic structure
• Infrastructure
• Procedures, technology
• 47 ATC-organizations
• 22 operating systems
• 30 programming languages

• Tomorrow
• Organization
• Multiple authorities (infrastructure, service,
  pricing)
• Infrastructure
• Procedures, technology
• Standardization
• 1 ATC-organization
• 1 operating system

European Commission (EC) ATC Airlines technolog
y
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ATM data sharing via ATM portal

• Share all data real time
• Airlines and ATM supply all data
• Create ATM portal to process data and supply it
  in a meaningful format
• Advantages
• Standardized interface and information (e.g. via
  web)
• Airline can anticipate congestion
• Can adapt routing real time with adaptive
  decision making
• Provision of digital data automatically (static
  dynamic)
• Obstacles
• ATM labor force
• Security

decision
Airlines (lobbying, incentives)
ATM
EC, govt
ATM portal
decision
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Dynamic and flexible airspace utilization

• Optimize special use airspace (SUA) utilization
  dynamically in a collaborative fashion
• Differentiate SUA (core, temporary)
• Optimal use of temporal SUA windows
• Integrated civil military ATM
• Supply of real time digital data
• Advantages
• More useable airspace (increases capacity)
• Starting strategic cooperation between airlines
  and military
• Obstacles
• Ability to incorporate this data for flight
  planning
• Security
• Establish collaboration with military

Incentives (airline ? military) Technology
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Market Mechanisms
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Market mechanisms require a new relationship
between airlines and ATC
Airlines
European ATC
New compensation scheme for controllers

• Differentiation in ATC
• services offered to airlines
• Airport/Route congestion
• pricing
• Airlines/ATC performance
• monitoring and penalty system

Slot/Holding time Exchange System
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Differentiation in ATC services offered to
airlines

• Possibilities for service differentiation
• Airline given priority in the airspace/airport
  system in exchange for a higher ATC charges
• Airlines pooling resources together to pay ATC
  for extra service during peak hours
• Leasing of exclusive airways (e.g. Star
  Alliance North Atlantic Route)
• Advantages
• better punctuality for airlines willing to pay
  extra cost
• new sources of revenue for ATC

ATC
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Airline ATC clearing house collaboration concept

• Prerequisite Agreement and negotiation on
  standard gate-to-gate performance benchmarks and
  penalities
• Clearing house
• Penalty System entity responsible for the system
  disruption penalized through bonus/malus system
• airline should depart at scheduled time
• ATC should provide agreed-upon service
  performance
• Exchange System between airlines can exchange
  slots and holding time priorities
• Database containing all data tracked and bonus
  points will be accessible to all stakeholders
  (ATC/ Airlines)

Clearing house
ATC
Airline
Penalty System
Airline
Exchange System
Airline
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Advantages of clearing house collaboration
ATC
Airlines

• Requirements for on-time performance will be met
• Real-time trade-off between punctuality and cost
  through exchange program
• Stable scheduling process gt reduction in delay
  costs better aircraft utilization
• Reduced crew costs

• Better planification for lower airspace/ landing
  approach
• Bonus for performing at agreed-upon service
  levels
• Transparency allows ATC not to be blamed
• ATC is under no obligation to meet standard
• Gate-to-gate time if airline not departing
  on-time
• New revenue source for ATC

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Operations and Technology
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Better utilization of existing system

• Solutions to overloading of airspace at peak
  times
• Expand schedule
• Low price tickets at low peak times
• Premium price tickets at high peak times
• Use secondary airports and enhance intermodality
• Advantages
• Create additional capacity
• Add value to different customer segments
• Obstacles
• Regulation of night flying (curfews)
• Limited public transportation at night
• Labor issues

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Unification of flight segments

• Reduction of ATC complexity by
• Standardizing of existing ATM procedures and
  technologies
• Assigning one controller per flight from
  departure to landing
• Advantages
• Seamless ATC experience
• Increased staffing flexibility
• Less controllers in low traffic segments
• Obstacles
• Regulation issues
• New training concepts
• Redefinition of controllers

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ATC of the future
Aircraft at high altitude
No pilots
No controllers
New navigation systems
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Questions
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