Airport’s Terminal Airspace Modeling and Simulation

AirTOP’s TMA/TRACON module helps airports understand their airspace capacity issues and delay factors, along with the required maneuvers to safely maximize capacity. It supports all key airport approach and departure procedures, while realistically simulating all aircraft movements in the airport’s airspace and required departure/approach controller tasks.

What Makes AirTOP TMA/TRACON Unique

Produce compelling reports

Quickly retrieve, visualize and aggregate simulation results for external analysis and reporting tools.

Assess controller workload

The workload of controllers can also be simulated dynamically in the AirTOP TMA/TRACON module and can be customized for both approach and airport/tower controllers.

Features

Airport Terminal Airspace Modeling and Simulation

AirTOP’s TMA/TRACON module supports all key airport approach and departure structures. The software realistically simulates all related aircraft movements in the airport airspace and simulates all required departure/approach controller tasks.

• Retrieve, visualize and aggregate simulation results
• Data can be easily queried
• Workload of controllers can be simulated dynamically

AirTOP Reporter

The AirTOP Reporter allows users to quickly retrieve, visualize and aggregate simulation results. It generates plots and tables exportable to spreadsheets or images to be used in external analysis and reporting tools.

Maneuvering Areas on Approach

Maneuvering areas can also be defined to connect Approach Legs, i.e. an area that can be used by the controller to increase separation by vectoring flights.

Detailed Controller Workload Modeling

The workload of controllers can also be simulated dynamically in the AirTOP TMA/TRACON module and can be customized for both approach and airport/tower controllers. The workload model can associate work duration to any event (TMA entries, vectoring, speed, holding control, landing and departure clearances, etc.). It can also consider the monitoring of different aircraft activities (taxiing, stopping at crossing/stand-off, waiting for clearance, etc.). The work duration associated with event handling can be split into generic user-defined activities (radio com, monitoring, conflict resolution, etc.) and the duration spent per event type and per activity can then be logged per rolling hour.

Data Export

Built-in statistics per sector, flight, airport, or runway can be easily queried and exported (spreadsheet files, SQL databases) from AirTOP. The results of multiple simulation runs (that may include user-defined random variations) can be aggregated to provide statistically significant results.