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Towards to Collaborative Air Traffic and Airport Management

At this moment, it is not yet developed an effective intra-connecting data sharing between Air Traffic Management (ATM) providing and Ground Operations, essential for collaborative procedures planning, that impose losses in term of delay (time), fuel consumption, airlines operational cost and insufficient service quality of all parties in air transportation chain. Procedure planning methodologies within ATM services and Airport system are unrecognisable, especially in real-time operational surrounding – in pre-tactical and tactical (decision making) phases. Besides operational disruptions and capacity shortage, consequence of actual unsynchronised planning impacts overall environment and safety performance. The research need is therefore strong technology-driven and orient to develop applied model of the Air Traffic and Airport’s Collaborative Decision Making system (AA-CDM) with performance-based intra-connection. Such model encompasses the main functions of ATM regulation and Airport’s air-side organisation, assumes a given and onward planned surrounding of European ATM services provisioning. The aim of required research can be summarised by the three high level objectives: - Determine the common criteria to make recognisable, comparable and intra-relating performance indicators of Air Traffic Management and Airport Management ; - Identify subsystems of ATM and Airport-CDM, which substantial upgrading and improvement support increasing of capacity and efficiency of the whole air transport system ; and - Develop the new model of AA-CDM, which should be capable and feasible for accommodation in operational and institutional framework both the Europe-wide and at the national level. This paper presents research background and describes the complex of targeted researches need to be performed, with support of critical stakeholders, which would be mutually converged to common developing matrix of dynamic interactions respecting changeable policy, technological and operational context.

air transport; air traffic management; airport collaborative decision making

This paper is prepared as extracted overview of project proposal titled Collaborative Air Traffic and Airport Management (CATAM) for Research Grants 2013 tender by Croatian Science Foundation. CATAM research group encompasses professors, post-doc and doctoral students employed at Department of Air Transport, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Airport Zagreb, Airport Split, and Eurocontrol.