WP 10 En-Route & Approach ATC Systems
The scope of En-Route & Approach ATC Systems includes all Research & Development activities to define, design, specify and validate the En-route & TMA ATC Systems evolutions for introducing and enhancing Trajectory Management functions, new Separation Modes, Controller Tools and Safety Nets, Airspace Management supporting functions, Management Complexity tools, Queue Management and Route optimisation features.
WP 10 will contribute to the ATM Master Plan achievement by reducing separation and expediting the traffic flow, resulting in an increased capacity and flight regularity, and to improving the safety.
The objectives of WP 10 are to:
- Define and develop the technical enablers of ground ATC systems relating to trajectory management, specifically the contribution of ATC systems to the amendment and distribution of the Reference Business Trajectory (RBT) and Mission Trajectory (MT) in the realm of En-route and TMA. It addresses tools and HMI features to support the revision of the RBT/MT, impact of sharing RBT/MT on the internal processing of ATC systems, and the apportionment of the ATC sub-functions as identified in the Projects into the ATC systems/components;
- Define and develop the ground ATC automation functions supporting new separation procedures such as ASAS, reduced separation based on wake vortex prediction/detection, taking also into account specific requirements for the management of military traffic. It also includes the evolution of surveillance data processing functions to support new types of surveillance sensors and applications;
- Define and develop technical solutions to implement Controller Tools and Safety Nets such as:
- new controller tools (e.g. precision conformance monitoring aids) required in the context of precision trajectories and new approach procedures,
- conflict advisory and resolution tools in the context of 4-D trajectories,
- improvement to safety nets (e.g. by using aircraft derived data) to raise the safety levels and avoid false alerts in the context of new procedures;
- Define and develop the evolution of ground ATC functions to support Airspace Organisation Management focussing on FUA and on the management of restricted areas;
- Define and develop the ground ATC data link processing and management functions required for pre-SWIM datalink implementations (e.g. DL application host, DL HMI). Initial data link applications building upon LINK2000+ will be considered as well as future enhanced applications. Particular attention will be also paid to the interoperability, at application level, between civil and military operations. The impact of the introduction of new data-link infrastructures on the ATC System will also be analysed;
- Investigate traffic complexity management tools i.e. tools and presentations dedicated to the evaluation of the current and predicted complexity of the traffic in a given area (e.g. sector) and tools for proposing actions to reduce complexity, including probing functions to evaluate the impact of these actions;
- Define and develop the functional changes to AMAN and define requirements to the development of SMAN/DMAN and technical enablers required to prepare smooth and efficient time-based traffic sequences in terminal areas and when necessary in en-route addressing early visibility of the arriving flight (far before arriving within TMA) and the possibility to propose adjustment actions for the en-route part (i.e. coordination with upstream sectors) and Arrival/departure management solutions for complex TMA, including multiple airports, with the objective of optimising minimal queuing;
- Specify and prototype an integrated Controller Working Position for En-route and Approach environments to present information in a context sensitive way to the user with a presentation following a generic SESAR "style";
- Define reliable ATC Capabilities to provide the required availability and reliability in ATC systems.
Contributors to work package 10 are:
WP 10 is further organised into 23 projects:
SWP 10.0 Global Coordination & Management
SWP 10.1 ATC System and Supervision Definition
P 10.1.7 ATC System Specification
P 10.1.9 ATC Systems Supervision
SWP 10.2 Trajectory Management
P 10.2.1 ATC Trajectory Management Design
P 10.2.2 Trajectory Management Exchange Formats Definition
P 10.2.3 ATC system support to RBT/MT Revision
P 10.2.5 Flight Object IOP System Requirement & Validation
SWP 10.3 Separation Management
P 10.3.1 Handling free routing, new approach & departure procedures and mixed separation modes
P 10.3.2 ATC support to ASAS sequencing and merging operations
P 10.3.3 ATC support to ASAS In Trail Procedure (ITP)
P 10.3.8 ATC System support to Precision Trajectory Clearances
SWP 10.4 Controller Tools and Safety Nets
P 10.4.1 Enhanced Tools for Conflict Detection and Resolution
P 10.4.2 Precision Conformance Monitoring
P 10.4.3 Safety Nets adaptation to new modes of operation
P 10.4.4 Time Based Separation
SWP 10.5 ATC support to Airspace Management
P 10.5.1 System impact of the use of flexible, new types of, & restricted airspace
SWP 10.7 Air-Ground Datalink
P 10.7.1 Enhanced Datalink Features for all phase of flight
SWP 10.8 Complexity Management
P 10.8.1 Complexity Assessment and Resolution
SWP 10.9 Queue Management and route optimisation
P 10.9.1 Integration of Queue Management
P 10.9.2 Multiple airport arrival/departure management
P 10.9.4 CDA and CCD in high density traffic
SWP 10.10 iCWP Human Factors aspects and User Interface Design
P 10.10.2 iCWP Human Factors Design
P 10.10.3 iCWP Prototyping
SWP 10.12 Reliable ATC Capabilities
P 10.12.1 ATC system analysis for availability and reliability
Information to follow after the initiation phase.
