Development of Surface Management System Integrated with CTAS Arrival Tool
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The Surface Management System (SMS) is a decision support tool that helps tower traffic coordinators and Ground/Local controllers manage and control airport surface traffic in order to increase capacity, efficiency, and flexibility. SMS provides common situation awareness to personnel at various air traffic control facilities such as air traffic control towers (ATCTs), airline ramp towers, the Terminal Radar Approach Controls (TRACONs), and Air Route Traffic Control Centers. SMS also provides a traffic management tool to assist ATCT traffic management coordinators in making decisions regarding airport configuration and runway load balancing. The Build 1 of the SMS tool was successfully tested at Memphis International Airport. This paper reports the recent development efforts performed to integrate SMS with the Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS) Traffic Management Advisor (TMA) to improve its prediction accuracy for arrival traffic and robustness under modeling uncertainties. The preliminary analysis results performed on the traffic data at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport have shown significant improvements in predicting runway assignment, runway arrival time, and arrival demand.
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