A Framework for Assessing and Managing the Impact of ANSP Actions on Flight Efficiency

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for the assessment of Air Traffic Management (ATM) performance in relation to flight efficiency. The main philosophy behind the approach presented in this paper is to quantify the quality of the service delivered by an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) to an airline in terms of meeting commonly agreed objectives. The definition is therefore aligned with the future paradigm of Trajectory Based Operations, where achieving the trajectory agreed between the ANSP and the airspace user becomes the focus. A staged approach to flight efficiency assessment is proposed to quantify the quality of the ANSP's service in terms of both "facilitating what has been agreed" and "improving what can be agreed". The framework promotes the development of more consistent efficiency performance metrics between ANSPs, as clear definitions exist for assessment references. Application of the framework was illustrated with several examples using the Airservices Dalí trajectory modeller.

Advanced Flight Efficiency Key Performance Indicators to support Air Traffic Analytics: Assessment of European flight efficiency using ADS-B data

“…The evaluation of flight efficiency indicators requires the definition of several types of trajectories, each of which accounts for a loss of efficiency due to different factors. The definitions below follow the nomenclature and framework used in [20] [27] and are the final set of reference trajectories 1 selected in AURORA (more thorough definitions can be found in [40] [41]):…”