Increasing airport efficiency: injecting new technology

Author

Piazza, Enrico

Author_Institution

AS Div. Nova, Park Air Syst., Horten, Norway

Volume

17

Issue

3

fYear

2002

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

13

Abstract

Advanced surface movement guidance and control systems (A-SMGCS) - called airport surface detection equipment in North America - can potentially solve the airport capacity bottleneck while maintaining at least the current safety level. A-SMGCS are becoming increasingly sophisticated and play a major role in avoiding runway incursions. To investigate the feasibility of phasing in new technology to ease airport operations, the European Commission has funded several research projects. The latest project, called VISION (improVed aIrport A-SMGCS by integrated multisensor data fuSION), aims to apply all the technologies developed in previous projects, including A-SMGCS, to a set of real airports.

Keywords

airports; ground support equipment; ground support systems; information technology; intelligent control; research initiatives; A-SMGCS; European Commission; VISION project; advanced surface movement guidance and control systems; airport capacity bottleneck; airport efficiency; airport operations; airport surface detection equipment; integrated multi-sensor data fusion; intelligent transportation systems; new technology; research projects; runway incursions; safety level maintenance; Air safety; Air traffic control; Airports; Communication system traffic control; Intelligent transportation systems; Intelligent vehicles; Radar; Software safety; Surveillance; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2002.1005625

Filename

1005625