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The Integrated Tower Working Position (ITWP) |
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Information management and system integration are key enablers for the development of airports in the future. However, it is clear, at least for the foreseeable future, that the controller will remain as the principle decision maker.
Today in an ATC tower, the controller is surrounded by a number of individual systems all having their own interface, without any common information management.
In the future, a greater number of systems will provide even more information to the controller. Therefore, there is a need to study the integration of the various airport air side system components into an integrated tower working position (ITWP).
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The high-level objectives of the project are:
- to develop commonly agreed functional specifications and associated requirements that cover operational, technical, human factors, and safety aspects to be supported by the ITWP;
- to develop a possible HMI solution for the EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre (EEC ITWP);
- to develop a prototype to demonstrate the EEC ITWP (using the Early Demonstration & Evaluation Platform - eDEP); and
- to perform a simulation to evaluate the functional specifications, the HMI/human factors/safety requirements, and the EEC HMI solution.
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The Early Demonstration & Evaluation Platform - eDEP |
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The A-SMGCS (advanced surface movement guidance and control system) and electronic flight strips are seen as the foundations of the ITWP. The A-SMGCS applications will serve as a structure for the development of the project. They encompass the surveillance and alerting functions as deployed today in some European airports but will also extend to further developments foreseen with the A-SMGCS guidance, routing, and planning functions.
Electronic flight strips information will be integrated with data coming from the A-SMGCS, the arrival manager, the departure manager, the stand and gate management system, the CFMU, datalink applications, and ATFM applications as well as with meteorological data. Other information sources may also be identified by the project.
The research includes the technological, operational, human-factors, and safety aspects for the proposed changes. The project will last from January 2006 to December 2009.
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