ARAMIS - Advanced Runway Arrivals Management to Improve Airport Safety and Efficiency
Overview
Background & policy context:
Airports and terminal control areas are behaving as bottlenecks in the growth of capacity for air passenger and freight transport. Sequencing and metering tools provide air traffic controllers with the expected time of arrival of each incoming aircraft and the amount of delay to be absorbed by each aircraft to meet the landing schedule. However, these tools suffer from a lack of accurate 4-D aircraft performance models and meteorological models. An improvement is needed in the accuracy of the predicted flight path for the final phase of the flight, in order to enhance the accuracy of information on the time of aircraft landing.
Objectives:
The overall objective of ARAMIS was to adapt and develop models and tools for 4-D-planning, guidance and control, during the approach phase of flight, from initial approach fix until runway threshold. The project thus intended to produce efficient spacing between aircraft, and help to increase airport capacity by smoothing the controllers workload.
The specific objectives of ARAMIS were:
- to study the choice and the adaptation of the existing models in the field of procedures, aircraft performance and weather;
- to build an aircraft performance and weather model;
- to develop, test and evaluate a prototype, including an aircraft performance model, a weather model, a trajectory prediction, monitoring/guidance, a sequencer and the human/machine interface.
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