Lothar Christoffels

First results of coupling of ATM planning systems with different time horizons

With the implementation of Total Airport Management we expect that the pre-tactical airport planning for a 24h period will be tool supported in future. Usually decisions made and implemented in those pre-tactical phase influence the tactical planning. The paper at hand describes the trials performed with coupled ATM planning systems for the mentioned pre-tactical planning and the tactical controller assistance systems. It starts with a brief description of the pre-tactical planning system prototype from DLR and our research prototypes for arrival and departure management. The conceptual idea of coordination profiles to couple both kinds of planning systems are explained in short before selecting two coordination profiles for the trials. The result confirms our expectation: With the coupling the traffic flows entering the tactical planning are smoothed.

Integration of controller scheduling tools with a runway management capability

The paper describes an integrated system comprised of the arrival, departure and surface management systems (collectively referred to as ADS-MAN) developed and under research at the Institute of Flight Guidance at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Tactical Runway Configuration Management System (TRCM) that was developed and under research at the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) Langley Research Center.