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Optimizing Air Traffic Flow Management
through collaborative decision making
Airport CDM concept & Supporting Technology/Systems
Lionel Bernard-Peyre, Airport Automation Business Development, Thales
Why Air Traffic Flow Management needs optimisation?
Today’s aviation is being transformed in offering travels for more and more
people. Investments in aircraft and ground infrastructure are important and it
is important to secure the operations and to reduce inefficiencies.
How Collaboration Decision Making can help to improve operations?
Collaboration is a key concept promoted by ICAO,IATA,ACI or
EUROCONTROL that is difficult to put in place due to cultural resistance but
also the need for high level of security.
Business rules are specific for each stakeholder. All the actors shall benefit
from the collaboration making the best balance between capacity, flexibility
and punctuality, in line with tactical operations.
New technologies are emerging to increase the collaboration in a secure way
and to learn from past experience and to better anticipate impact of
unexpected events such as severe weather conditions.
Why do we need flow management?
• Large investments in IT
infrastructure by all stakeholders
ATM
• Good optimisation of each
stakeholder’s own operations
Aviation
System
Inefficiency
Airline
IT
• Very little optimisation across the
stakeholder boundaries
Airport
IT
• Still > $9B in aviation system
inefficiency per annum
Small gains in aviation operations efficiency = large value / benefits
What is Traffic Flow Management ?
Capacity
Demand
Traffic Flow Management are
the tools and processes
to adjust aviation operations
to demand / capacity
imbalance
What is
Collaborative Decision Making?
ATFM
ATC
Military
Information, Systems, Tools,
Processes & Procedures,
People
Flight
Crew
Ground
Services
Airline
Ops
Airport
Ops
CDM is an approach
whereby a group of
stakeholders work
together to solve
common problems
using agreed tools,
processes and
procedures
Demand/Capacity Balancing
Continuum (ATC perspective)
1 year to 1 week
ahead
1-2 months
ahead
Schedulebased
Planning
Publish ATC
Roster
1 week to 1 day
ahead
Refine the
Planning
(WX forecast,
etc)
1 day ahead
Publish
Daily Plan
day of operations
National
Traffic
Mgmt.
Initiatives
KPIs, Analysis, Data Analytics & Lessons Learned
after operations
Local Traffic
Mgmt.
Initiatives
Operations performance
improves through coordination
Airlines, ATC &
Airports are
following
analogous
processes to plan,
refine and operate
their services.
Performance
improves thru
collaboration &
data sharing.
ATFM is much more
than Slot Management
Increasing impact on flight schedule
Need automation to apply
the right action to the right flight at the right time
Thales ATFM Philosophy
blending best practices from around the world
• Don’t regulate traffic unless a problem is anticipated
• Use the correct tool (measure) for the problem faced
• Target equitable sharing of any operational impacts
• Provide airspace users the ability to share & select
preferences
• Do not over-constrain flights
• Create incentives to encourage participation and
compliance
• Combine policy and procedures with technology
• Use the analytics to improve forecasts and decisions
Use accurate flight profile to assess
demand and impacts of measures
Prioritized approach for managing
demand/capacity imbalance
• Address airport issues where demand approaches or exceeds capacity
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Ration by schedule allocation of flights to available airport capacity (metering)
Load balance runways to accommodate demand
Calculate take-off times and metering point times (upstream metering)
Utilize sequencing (AMAN) to maximize utilization of available capacity
Balance departure flows (DMAN) with arrival flows to ensure smooth operations
Handle airlines preferences (runway) and priorities (slot swap)
• Address airspace issues once airport flows are planned
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Identify hot spots (capacity / complexity overload) which require management
Evaluate available measures (route, speed, level, rate, time, sectorization, etc)
Implement changes to flights or flows (including coordination with stakeholders)
Monitor impact and continue to adjust as needed
Comprehensive management of imbalances
during all phases of flight
Integrated arrival / departure
management at the airports
An accurate planning, prepared by Flow Managers and Dispatchers
to be implemented by controllers and pilots
a data-driven solution, providing
decision support for improved aviation operations
TopSky-ATC and ECOsystem work
together to improve decisions
Decisions smoothly implemented into actions
Solutions for Efficiency
& Capacity Optimization
• Efficiency & capacity-oriented solution
• Companion to safety-oriented TopSky-ATC
• Modern Big data and web-technology based platform and architecture
• Flexible, modular, scalable and cost-effective
• Able to host specific local/regional algorithms and applications
• Secured
• Targeting major sources of aviation system inefficiency
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ANSP cost and controller productivity
ANSP flow management – airspace and airport optimization
Airline flight operations cost
Airline schedule reliability
Airport operations
Thales Value Proposition
TopSky-ATC connectivity
Meteo Data
Accurate and reliable data
Detect the right problems
Easy detection, try and solving
Support Decision Making for
Flow Manager
Big Data analysis
Integrated HMI
Data filtering and alerts
What-if
MAESTRO AMAN/DMAN integration
Tactical Flow Management
Extended AMAN metering
Accurate Airport configuration
Reliable metering and
sequencing to/from airports
Secured exchange of data via
internet
Support CDM and regional
expansion
Modern Web architecture
Cybersecurity
SWIM