The Airport Flow Tool presents airport demand and
capacity information in real-time through graphics
and text, allowing airlines to analyze airport constraints
and develop coping mechanisms. The tool displays
specific flight information, airport arrival and
departure rates, arrival and departure slots, and
airport restrictions. Based on the display, users
can determine whether a demand/capacity imbalance
exists and take action to cancel, delay or substitute
flights to maintain traffic flow. Prior to implementation,
traffic management scenarios can be modeled and
evaluated in a matter of seconds. The Airport Flow
Tool provides common situational awareness by allowing
users to view the same snapshot in time, thus facilitating
collaboration and distributed decision making.
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- Provides common situational
awareness
- Displays flight information
- Demand/capacity decision support tool
- Models airport and airspace constraints
- Historical data analysis capability
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The Airport Flow Tool contains several rationing
schemes that seek to maintain an efficient and equitable
balance between capacity and demand. The tool provides
a means of reassigning flights to slots in a manner
that ensures scarce airport capacity is utilized
effectively. Graphical Power Run functionality allows
for quick examination of multiple strategies measured
by various performance metrics. The Airport Flow
Tool plug-in feature enables outside contractors
to develop and fully integrate their own tools.
Reduced arrival rates at airports can be modeled
to generate airborne holding times for flights,
thus allowing airline dispatchers to calculate optimum
hold fuel to reduce diversions. The tool displays
both live and historical data. Live data is used
to monitor the current situation at an airport and
display flight schedule demand. Historical data
is used to analyze flight schedules and impact of
airport restrictions to adjust for future markets.
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Multi-window
Monitor Mode
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Map-based
Airport Monitor
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Timeline
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