1. Total Airport Management Systems
Institute of Flight Guidance
Dr.-Ing. Christoph Meier

2. Situation Airports are very large, complex systems due to:
Interface between different Traffic Modes (Air, Rail, Road,...)
Internal Traffic (Passenger, Luggage, Cargo, Crew,...)
Various Services (ATC, Catering, Fire Brigade, Towing cars,...)
Dependencies between Services due to:
Share of common resources (e.g. Tarmac of the Apron)
Share of common objective (Transport of Persons and Goods)

3. Problems Historically grown Structures
Different commercial and governmental Stakeholders
Partly conflicting Interests between Stakeholders
Further Fragmentation in the near Future
Co-ordination from the Local Point of View of the Services
Local Decision Making without Globale Situation View
Very conventional Techniques for Co-ordination

4. Total Airport Management System
Innovative Idea
Total Airport Management System
ATC
Apron
Control
Airline
Catering
...
Airport Ressources

5. Benefits
Optimized Use of Airport Ressources due to Integrated Operations
More Throughput through the Airport
Enhanced Robustness by Improved Management of Exceptions
More Money for the Service
Less Environmental Impact for the Society
More Comfort for the Passengers / Customers

6. Questions What are the Possibilities and Limits of TAMS?
Who would benefit and how big are the Benefits?
What Technical and Operational Changes would be necessary?
What Technologies could be used?
Centralized or Distributed System Architecture?
How to Test, Demonstrate and Validate a TAMS?
How can an Airport migrate to a TAMS?
Who will operate such a TAMS?
...

7. What we are already doing
Modelling Airside and Landside Processes
Investigating new HMI Technologies
Developing first TAMS Ideas and Concepts
Preparing a Development Environment

8. What is still necessary
In order to speed up research further funding is necessary
A joint effort of research and users would be more efficient
European ATC Providers would directly profit from optimized Airports, so Eurocontrol should have a certain interest in TAMS
Mobility is one of the most important topics of tomorrows society, so the EU should have a certain interest in TAMS

9. Potential further Steps
1. Pilot Study
Thourough Determination of the State of the Art
Situation Analysis at 3-4 European Airports
Definition of further necessary work more in detail
Building Research Consortia
Development of Operational and Technical Concepts
2. Feasibility Study
Detailled Requirement Analysis
Prototyping main parts of a Total Airport Management System
Evaluation in simulation and field test
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10. Thank you for your attention