Flow Management and 4D Trajectory Based Operations

AirTOP Flow Management combines the capacities of AirTOP TMA/TRACON to model the airspace in the close vicinity of airports and those of AirTOP En Route to simulate airport-to-airport traffic. Used by those with complex airspaces, it facilitates 4D trajectory based operations, a key component of the US Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) and Europe’s Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR). The capacity of AirTOP Flow Management to quickly process and analyze huge data samples, and the ability of fast-time simulation to present tailored performance indicators, makes it the state-of-the-art air traffic flow and capacity management (ATFCM) model. It is the ideal choice for research projects, the strategic system-wide analysis of flow and capacity, or for developing scenarios of standard solutions and playbooks. AirTOP Flow Management is used by EUROCONTROL and the FAA for large-scale modeling of traffic covering entire continents or oceans.

What Makes AirTOP Flow Management Unique

• Planned 4D trajectory synchronization and negotiation.
• Airspace planned entry load and occupancy monitoring.
• Flow management and demand capacity balancing (DCB).
• Time-based (TTA/CTA/RTA) or distance-based point-in-space metering.

Features

Assess and Optimize Flow Management Measures

Flow Management’s capacity to quickly process and analyze huge data samples and the ability to present tailored performance indicators makes it the state-of-the-art air traffic flow and capacity management (ATFCM) model.

• Customize data for better decision-making
• Export data for analysis

Reporting

The workload associated with negotiation and with flow management can also be simulated dynamically and can be customized for different actors. It can take also into account the time spent waiting for a reply from another actor, or the monitoring of flights with any given constraint (TTA, CTA, etc.). A customizable event log can be easily created by the user and exported to spreadsheet files or an SQL database for external specific analysis.