Considerations in the design of an air traffic management system

Dennis Buede, John Farr, Robert Powell, Dinesh Verma

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    Abstract

    An air traffic management system (ATMS) is a network-centric system being used to manage another network-centric system, namely an air transportation system. At Stevens Institute of Technology we are developing a design language for network-centric systems and design guidelines for the development system of engineers and domain specialists involved in designing and integrating systems. Note, this development system with today's technology is also a network-centric system. This paper provides an outline of the design language under construction and the design guidelines being studied. Specifically, we will discuss the ATMS mission objectives (e.g., average yearly throughput of people and freight for a high demand scenario), ATMS sample usage scenarios (e.g., ATMS reroutes air traffic in time and space in reaction to major weather deviation along northeast coast), and system objectives for an ATMS (e.g., timeliness of a specific high volume of messages out of ATMS given a high volume of incoming messages from aircraft, weather sensors, and airports). In addition, we will lay out some of key design decisions associated with both the development system of engineers and domain specialists and the operational ATMS. Examples of key design decisions for the engineering system are (1) appropriate partitioning of functional/physical architectures of the engineering system, (2) appropriate degree to telecollaboration and collaboration among design/integration groups, (3) appropriate incremental delivery packages for an incremental delivery schedule of ATMS elements, and (4) appropriate levels and thrusts of the risk management program. Examples of key design decisions for the operational ATMS are (1) throughput and security trades of the ATMS and (2) throughput and resiliency to weather changes. Finally we will relate network-centric architecture issues to both of the above sets of design decisions.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number78
    Pages (from-to)4B11-4B19
    JournalAIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference-Proceedings
    Volume1
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2002

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