Increasing safety level of airport ground operations by implementing an autonomous system of supervision and security

This article describes the Ground Safety (GS) system and shows the possibilities of its use. System is dedicated to the supervision of the airport's ground space. GS enables comprehensive control and traffic management on the entire port area. In addition to real-time supervision, it is possible, among another, to archive and restore data preserving its integrity, two-way communication, and also bulk messages broadcasting. The equipment of the airport guests in the transmitter allows constant access to its basic parameters and current position. The article describes the possibilities of reducing the risk level of occurrence dangerous and undesirable incidents. It also shows how to increase the overall security of the unit.

Simulation and Optimization of Ground Traffic on Airports using Cellular Automata

Due to increasing numbers of airplane operations on international airports in Germany, the efficiency of airport-ground operations becomes more and more important. Some airports, such as the international airport of Duesseldorf, have reached their capacity limit and need major improvements in order to handle the continuously growing number of airplanes and passengers. Further expansion of the airport is not possible because of limited space. To improve airport-ground operations, simulations are useful for evaluating suggestions in advance and for avoiding poor planning. Therefore the CAMAT-Model was developed (Cellular Automaton Model for Airport Traffic), seeking to simulate the dynamics of all airplanes as realistically as possible. Improvements on the current layout can be simulated as well as new taxiways and new taxiing routes. In this paper, we present the new CAMAT-Model and give examples of possible improvements at the airport of Duesseldorf and their influence on average rolling times of airplanes.