Total Airport Management Systems

Institute of Flight Guidance

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Meier

DLR, Institute of Flight Guidance

Situation
Airports are very large, complex systems due to:

Interface between different Traffic Modes (Air, Rail,

Road,...)

Internal Traffic (Passenger, Luggage, Cargo, Crew,...)

Various Services (ATC, Catering, Fire Brigade, Towing

cars,...)

Dependencies between Services due to:

Share of common resources (e.g. Tarmac of the Apron)

Share of common objective (Transport of Persons and
Goods)

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Problems

Historically grown Structures

Different commercial and governmental Stakeholders

Partly conflicting Interests between Stakeholders

Further Fragmentation in the near Future

Co-ordination from the Local Point of View of the

Services

Local Decision Making without Globale Situation View

Very conventional Techniques for Co-ordination

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Innovative Idea
Total Airport Management System

ATC

Apron
Control

Airline

Catering

Airport Ressources

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...

Benefits
Optimized Use of Airport Ressources due to Integrated
Operations
More Throughput through the Airport
Enhanced Robustness by Improved Management of
Exceptions

More Money for the Service

Less Environmental Impact for the Society
More Comfort for the Passengers / Customers

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Questions
What are the Possibilities and Limits of TAMS?
Who would benefit and how big are the Benefits?
What Technical and Operational Changes would be
necessary?
What Technologies could be used?
Centralized or Distributed System Architecture?
How to Test, Demonstrate and Validate a TAMS?
How can an Airport migrate to a TAMS?
Who will operate such a TAMS?
...
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What we are already doing

Modelling Airside and Landside Processes
Investigating new HMI Technologies
Developing first TAMS Ideas and Concepts
Preparing a Development Environment

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What is still necessary

In order to speed up research further funding is
necessary
A joint effort of research and users would be more
efficient
European ATC Providers would directly profit from
optimized Airports, so Eurocontrol should have a certain
interest in TAMS
Mobility is one of the most important topics of
tomorrows society, so the EU should have a certain
interest in TAMS

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Potential further Steps

1. Pilot Study
Thourough Determination of the State of the Art
Situation Analysis at 3-4 European Airports
Definition of further necessary work more in detail
Building Research Consortia
Development of Operational and Technical Concepts
2. Feasibility Study
Detailled Requirement Analysis
Prototyping main parts of a Total Airport Management
System
Evaluation in simulation and field test
...
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Thank you for your

attention
christoph.meier@dlr.de

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