1 NAS Performance and Analysis: The Role of the Airspace Laboratory Airspace Laboratory May 2002 Toulouse, France

2 Topics Data Collection, Archiving, and Enhancement Web Metrics and Trend Analysis Decision Support Analysis (Ad hoc) Analysis Tools Used Future

3 The Airspace Lab Provides Three Main Areas of Support Web Enabled Next Day Metrics and Trend Analysis Decision Support Analysis Airspace Laboratory Data Collection, Archiving and Enhancement

4 The Airspace Lab Provides Three Main Areas of Support Web Enabled Next Day Metrics and Trend Analysis Decision Support Analysis Airspace Laboratory Data Collection, Archiving and Enhancement

5 Data Collection and Enhancement Source Data Based on data from the Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS) Coverage USA En Route Selected TRACONS Oceanic Canadian En Route Mexico Limited Europe (Heathrow)

6 Data Collection and Enhancement Data Processing, Quality Control, and Enhancement Traffic Positions Boundary Crossings Terminal Center/Sector Equipment Usage Spatial Polygon Basis for Metrics Resource Usage (RADAR) Airspace Usage Special Area Traffic Plans Attributes Time Distance Departures Arrivals Geo-Spatial Calculations Raw Data Processed and Enhanced

7 Data Collection and Enhancement Data Storage and Access Data Storage Data Threading Boundary Crossing Calculations Data Parsing Lab Analyst s Airspace Lab Web Site

8 Data Collection and Enhancement Data Availability Data On Line and Available on a Next Day Basis Enhanced Data Available in 48 hours Enhanced Data Soon To Be Available Next Day En Route Data Archived and On Line From 1998 Accessible Via the ATA Laboratory Web Site IP Address: (Access From the FAA Intranet) ATA Laboratory Analysts

9 Data Collection and Enhancement Programs and Offices To Whom We Are Providing Data Office of System Capacity

10 The Airspace Lab Provides Three Main Areas of Support Web Enabled Next Day Metrics and Trend Analysis Decision Support Analysis Airspace Laboratory Data Collection, Archiving and Enhancement

11 Web Metrics and Trend Analysis Web Metrics Types Airport Diversions City Pair Sector Center National

12 Web Metrics and Trend Analysis National Overview

13 Actual Flight Plan Sum Deltas Over All Flights in the NAS Difference Between Actual and Requested Delta Web Metrics and Trend Analysis Calculate Delta Time and Distance Flown Subtract Requested Distance and Time from Flight Plan Calculate Actual Distance and Time Flown

14 Web Metrics and Trend Analysis Actual/Requested Summary

15 Web Metrics and Trend Analysis NAS Metrics Distribution Plot Samples

16 The Airspace Lab Provides Three Main Areas of Support Web Enabled Next Day Metrics and Trend Analysis Decision Support Analysis Airspace Laboratory Data Collection, Archiving and Enhancement

17 Decision Support Analysis What Does the Airspace Laboratory Provide? … Less Long Term Programmatic Analysis Mainly Ad hoc Quick Turn Around Analysis… Provide Data Airspace Laboratory Provides Data for Both Identify ProblemDetermine MetricsAcquire Data Perform Analysis Identify ProblemDetermine MetricsAcquire Data Perform Analysis

18 Fee-for-Service Over flights USA/Canada Flights Analysis Cost Accounting Short Term Analytical Requests Decision Support Analysis

19 Decision Support Analysis Fee-for-Service Over flights

20 Decision Support Analysis US/Canada Flights Analysis

21 Decision Support Analysis Ad hoc Requests Analysis of Flights Experiencing Go Arounds on Runway 14R at ORD

22 Analytical Tools SQL/Excel Geographic Information Systems Sector Design and Analysis Tool Noise Integrated Routing System

23 Future Additions to the Archive Enhancing Our Data Support and Analytical Capabilities Offload ETMS Historical Data Facility Status Weather CausesEffect Analyses Ad hoc Analyses Strategic Planning Logs Actions Airspace Change HAME