Improvement of Airport Operations

EUROCONTROL through
Experimental
Centre
Collaborative Decision Making:

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EUROCONTROL
Experimental
The actors
Centre

Barcelona Airport Barcelona Barcelona

Operations TWR FMP

Barcelona Airport Processes

Iberia Central Services

Operations Aena:
Eurohandling -Nav. Aérea
-Systems
Spanair Eurohandling -Dir. Trans.Aéreo
Operations Operations

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 The CDM project on Barcelona is conducted in five major Work
Packages
EUROCONTROL
Experimental
Centre

Work Package 2 : Work Package 3 : Work Package 4 : Work Package 5 :

Work Package 1 :
Identify and Identify the gaps Design and Measure,
Analyse the state of
select common between the actual implement follow up and
operations at Barcelona
improvement targets situation and the processes and information correct
common targets systems

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 Detailed information on Work Package 1
EUROCONTROL
Experimental
Centre WP1 : WP2 : WP3 :
WP4 : WP5 :
Analyse the Identify and Identify the gaps
Design and Measure,
state of select common between the actual
implement follow up
operations at improvement situation and the
processes and IS and correct
Barcelona targets common targets

Project management and projet reporting

Phase 3 Phase 4 :
Phase 1 : Phase 2 • Assess if necessary to
• Business process modelling deepen the process analysis • Final presentations,
• Project launch and analyse if relevant adjustment and
• Information systems
• Scope of the • Launch experiments and data validations and final
identification
study • Information flow analysis collection report
• Analysis of collected data

2 weeks 7 weeks 5 weeks 3 weeks

Mid January 2001 Mid June 2001

: Workshops/ : Experiments and
: Interwiews : steering committee
Validation meetings data collection

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 Flight and its co-ordination from point of view ATC
EUROCONTROL
Experimental
Centre

1 2 3 4 5

ATC
Flight enters
clearance TWR
ACC En route approach or
and push control
stack
back

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 Flight and its co-ordination from point of view AIRPORT
EUROCONTROL
Experimental
Centre

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Flight enters Cleaning, Doors closed Take-off

start ground Cargo,
approach or catering and aircraft
rotation luggage
stack ready

ATC
Touch down clearance and
Arrival to gate Fuelling Boarding
push back

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 Information collected during Phase 2 are analysed following four axis
EUROCONTROL
Experimental • Business Model of
Centre
Barcelona's operations,
• Analysis of co-ordination
processes between actors

(1)
Business
Processes
• Analysis of major Information
(4) (2) flows between actors and
processes,
Time Information • Analysis of data and
Estimates Flows information sources

• Analysis of the process of

update of time estimates, (3)
• Time Estimates Terminology, Information
• Analysis of the planned data
Systems

• Analysis of Information Systems

used by the actors to support their
operations processes
• Analysis of links between IS

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 Example of co-ordination processes between actors
EUROCONTROL
Experimental
Centre
Airport slots programme Airport resources planning Airport resources allocation
Airport slots Airport slots
during pre-tactical phase(S&G, and management during
Barcelona's planning (SCO) management
Check-in Banks, Baggage belts) tactical phase
Airport Requests for slots Airport
amendment Airport resources planning resources allocation •MVT/DLA
messages
•Time
Requests for slots
estimates
amendment

Flight Planning Flight Ramp

Flight Planning Operations Operations
(slot management) dispatching handling
and dispatch control control
and dispatch

Push-back Push-back tractors Push-back tractors planning and

Ramp
tractors planning planning and Ramp handling allocation
handling
and allocation allocation
SPANAIR IBERIA EUROHANDLING
Departure / push-back requests Departure / push-back clearances
Pre-tactical Landing requests (radio freq) Landing clearance (radio freq)
regulations Pre-tactical Tactical Ground
Departure / Tactical phase
planning phase movement
Arrival sequence
FMP control
REA requestTWR ACC
Co-ordination with ACC and Regulations to Co-ordination with
Regulations Co-ordination with ACC and FMP
TWR be implemented FMP and TWR
Regulations
State of Regulations to State of operations
operations be implemented CTOT
Pre-tactical
planning CFMU Pre-tactical Management of Amendment of Page 8 ATFM
Tactical phase (slot and
planning flight plans flight plans regulations management) messages
(FMD/FDOD)
 ATFM pre-tactical and Airport resources ATS departure sequence
ATS arrival sequence suffers The air traffic control service
tactical processes are not co- management and allocation and push-back process
from a lack of co-ordination providers are isolated from airspace
ordinated with airlines and is not co-ordinated with ATS suffer from a lack of co-
with airspace users, users and airport service providers
airport scheduling (TWR's departure sequence, ordination between
ATS arrival sequence), TWR/ATS airlines and
handlers
EUROCONTROL
Experimental (20) CFMU (23) Operations management
Pre-tactical planning (slots and regulations management)
Centre
(21) (22)
Airport slot planning and Management of flight plans Amendment of flight plans

management is not co-

ordinated with ATS, the
airport and the SCO,
FMP ACC TWR
(17-17') Push-back (18)
(13) (14) (15) Operations Operations (16) Local or
and taxi clearance
Strategic Pre-tactical management management Clearance aerodrome
Ground movement
planning planning (tactical phase) (tactical phase) (Departure) control
control

(19) Co-ordination between Bracelona's FMP, TWR and ACC

(8) Flight planning (9) (10) Flight planning (11) (12) Flight dispatching
Airspace management / Operations Operations / Operations Operations and
dispatch control dispatch control operations control
suffers from lack of
collaboration between (7) (7') Push-back tractors'
planning and allocation
(7) (7') Push-back tractors'
planning and allocation
(7) (7') Push-back tractors'
planning and allocation
airspace users and air
Barcelona's airport
traffic control service (6') Passengers handling (6') Passengers handling (6') Passengers handling
handlers capacities
providers
(6) Ramp handling (6) Ramp handling (6) Ramp handling and constraints are not
IBERIA SPANAIR EUROHANDLING taken into account
during airport slots
Airport resources planning
planning
and management are
passively co-ordinated with Barcelona's
(4) Airport's (5) Airport's resources
Airport
airlines SCO resources planning allocation and management
Operations (pre-tactical phase) (tactical phase)
There are difficulties to (1) Airport's slots
planning
receive modifications of the (strategic phase) (2) Airport's slots (3) Airport's slots
planning management
S&G numbers in very short (pre-tactical phase) (tactical phase)
notice

Handlers (service providers)

Airport slots and resources (stands and
seem isolated from airport and
There is no co-ordination gates, check-in banks) should be
ATS organisation and
between the SCO and the optimised by enhancing co-ordination
operations. Their
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CFMU with airlines and by establishing
and constraints are rarely taken
collaboration with ATS (FMP, ACC, TWR)
into account
 Eurocontrol suggests the following approach to be carried out
using all Barcelona's (Airport, Airlines, ATC, Handlers …) major
EUROCONTROL actors and resources
Experimental
Centre WP 1 : WP 2 : WP 3 :
WP 4 : WP 5 :
Analyse the Identify and Identify the gaps
Design and Measure,
state of select common between the actual
implement follow up
operations at improvement situation and the
processes and IS and correct
Barcelona targets common targets

Project management and projet reporting

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

• Launch the project Phase 4 :
• Define the scope of • Design macro processes, • Consolidate all outputs from • Final presentations,
the study and information flows and the several parties involved adjustment and
workgroups information systems • Design common target validations and final
• Identify and study • Define projects and road map report
best practices

Mid June 2001 December 2001

: Experiments and
: Interwiews : Workshops : Sterring committee
data collection

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