Business models for flight-centric air traffic control

This article explores the impact that flight-centric air traffic control (ATC), a concept under development, has on ATC market structure and ATC business models. Flight-centric operations bring forth changes in how the stakeholders adapt their roles to the emerging ATC market. We compared current ATC and market structures with the emerging flight-centric concept and analyzed the market changes in structure and competition from the emergence of flight-centric operations using Porter’s five forces model. Four potential business models for flight-centric ATC are identified and described: current air navigation service providers adapt, vertical integration by airlines, new ATC providers, and the network manager as capacity-demand manager. In the final chapter, we briefly describe the future regulation of the market for flight-centric operations. We conclude that new concepts and technologies, such as flight-centric operations, create the necessary dynamics for change in the current market structure by unbundling of the market.

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System of AFIS Officer for Air Navigation Service providers

MAD - Magazine of Aviation Development ◽

10.14311/mad.2019.03.01 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 6-9

Author(s):

Pavel Kopp ◽

Jakub Kraus

Keyword(s):

Traffic Control ◽

Air Traffic Control ◽

Service Providers ◽

Information Service ◽

Training System ◽

Air Traffic ◽

National Audit ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Navigation Service ◽

Control Service

This paper focuses on the provision of the Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS) in the Czech Republic. It examines the functioning and the requirements on the AFIS from the view of the national audit office. Specially, it examines current requirements for the training system of new AFIS officers. Based on these findings, and by comparing the AFIS with Air traffic control service (ATC), the author of the article attempts to assess whether the current training system and the requirements for the applicants are sufficient by comparing the AFIS with the Air traffic control service. The result of the analysis is the presentation of hypotheses concerning new proposals and recommendations that could be adopted to the training and regulatory framework in accordance to the fact, that AFIS belongs to Air traffic services ATS.

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The Impact of Helicopter Operations on Air Traffic Control in the 1970's*

Navigation ◽

10.1002/j.2161-4296.1970.tb00046.x ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 246-252

Author(s):

JAMES G. McFADDEN

Keyword(s):

Traffic Control ◽

Air Traffic Control ◽

Air Traffic ◽

The Impact

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Design of a conflict-detection air traffic control tool for the implementation of continuous climb operations: A case study at Palma TMA

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering ◽

10.1177/0954410019831198 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 233 (13) ◽

pp. 4839-4852 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Javier A Pérez-Castán ◽

Fernando Gómez Comendador ◽

Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz ◽

Rocío Barragán ◽

Rosa M Arnaldo-Valdés

Keyword(s):

Traffic Control ◽

Air Traffic Control ◽

Conflict Detection ◽

Air Traffic ◽

Traffic Flows ◽

Control Intervention ◽

Static Approach ◽

Operational Concept ◽

The Impact ◽

Control Tool

Continuous climb operation is an operational concept that allows airlines to perform an optimal departing trajectory avoiding air traffic control segregation requirements. This concept implies the design and integration of air traffic flows for the sake of safety performance. This paper designs a new conflict-detection air traffic control tool based on the blocking-area concept, characterises the conflict probability between air traffic flows and assesses the impact of continuous climb operation integration in a terminal manoeuvring area. In this paper, a conflict is set out by the infringement of vertical and longitudinal separation minima and coincides with the probability of air traffic control tool usage. Moreover, this research discusses two different approaches for the conflict-detection air traffic control tool: a static approach considering nominal continuous climb operations and landing trajectories, and a dynamic approach that assesses 105 continuous climb operations and landing trajectories. Finally, the air traffic control tool is implemented using Palma TMA data and proves that out of 11 intersections (between departing and landing routes), solely 4 generate vertical separation infringements. The conflict probability between continuous climb operations and arrivals is less than 10−5. Except for one intersection, that is roughly 10−2, similar to current air traffic control intervention designed levels. Therefore, results conclude the viability of the conflict-detection air traffic control tool and continuous climb operations integration.

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Reducing Situation Awareness Errors in Air Traffic Control

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/107118139704100152 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 230-233 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Debra G. Jones

Keyword(s):

Situation Awareness ◽

Traffic Control ◽

Decision Process ◽

Air Traffic Control ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Irrelevant Information ◽

Air Traffic ◽

High Fidelity ◽

Expected Information ◽

The Impact

Since situation awareness (SA) is vital to the decision process, SA errors can degrade decision making. Many SA errors occur when all the relevant information has been correctly perceived. In these cases, the information's significance is not comprehended, and a representational error occurs. Schema influence this comprehension aspect of SA. This study investigates the impact of information with certain schema related characteristics on SA: (1) schema bizarre information will impact SA more than schema irrelevant information, and (2) schema unexpected information will impact SA more than the absence of schema expected information. Using a high fidelity air traffic control simulation, misinformation was provided to the controller and schema related cues were furnished to indicate the error. The results indicated that (1) schema bizarre cues impacted SA more than schema irrelevant cues and (2) no difference existed between the impact of the absence of schema expected cues and schema unexpected cues. Additionally the results emphasize the difficulty incurred when trying to prevent SA errors.

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