An airport decision support system for mobiles surveillance & alerting

Abstract

The improvement of safety on airport surface movements requires an integrated management of the entire airport, which is hard because usually that management is performed independently. This scenario sometimes compromises the overall efficiency of airport operations. The continuous increase of airport traffic has also lead to an escalating number of accidents and incidents on airport surface movements. In case of crisis situations, airport operators involved in the decision-making process have a limited knowledge of the overall traffic situation, thus leading to ground movement hazards. Therefore, the safety of vehicles on the movement area is seen as a major issue. The AIRNET project contributes to the solution of this problem by developing a new low-cost and modular platform for safety management on airport surface movements.The paper presents the AIRNET platform architecture focussing into its innovative characteristics to provide, in an airport environment, the surveillance, control, guidance, and most of all the decision support services for airport operators. The paper also outlines the dataflow within the Ground System and how the data are send/received to/from the on-board systems, which correspond to a simplified version of the corresponding modules on the Ground System.

NormSTAD flight analysis

“…Many other researchers have created flight data visualizations [18,23,27,30,31,25,24,22,21]. Hurter et al [23] designed a metro style visualization for flight paths in the Air Traffic Control context in order to avoid severe overlaps of the lines along with a complete method to produce an efficient layout.…”

“…The AIRNET platform by Pestana et al [31] provides a 3D model for surveillance, control, guidance and decision support services by airport operators. The FAA's Concept Analysis Branch has taken a step further and developed an interactive 4D visualization tool, FliteViz4D [19] for analysis of air traffic.…”

Support for Real-Time Decision Making in Mobile Financial Applications

“…By providing cost effective, pervasive access to information, wireless networks and mobile devices are reducing errors and improving access to all information that was once central (Chatterjee, 2003). By changing the way people work in today's dynamic work environment, we have seen the deployment of mobile technology in disciplines ranging from archaeology (Blunn et al, 2007), airport management (Pestana et al, 2005), education (Cabrera et al, 2005), healthcare (Michalowski et al, 2003, Cowie and Godley, 2006, Padmanabhan et al, 2006) and many more. Churchill and Munro (2001) state that changes in technologies led to subsequent changes in the nature of work practices, as a result, "…many work practices that have been traditionally seen as static in fact involve considerable amounts of local mobility" (p.3).…”