Changes in airport or airspace layout are almost inevitably associated with new operational concepts. Such new concepts of operation need to be analysed and evaluated extensively in order to evolve from several initial ideas to a single, mature operational concept ready for implementation.
To support you, whether you are an airport operator or air navigation service provider, we offer you our fast-time simulation capability and expertise to address your issues and to answer the related questions. The airport and/or airspace is modelled in detail and fully in accordance with the specific requirements for the particular question to be addressed. Your own operational experts are involved in the development and validation of these models, yielding highly realistic simulations of aircraft operations, contributing to the support from the different stakeholders involved.
New design layouts or operational concepts can then be quickly developed in these reference or baseline models, as only the differences with current practice have to be implemented. Fast-time simulations thus allow for a very quick implementation of different ideas and concepts, while their implications can be visualised and analysed immediately by assessing the relevant key performance indicators.
Fast-time simulation plays an invaluable role in airport and airspace concept development and change assessments as fast-time simulations can quickly narrow down the various initial ideas to a limited set of favourable candidates. If further evaluation by means of real-time simulation is desirable, which we also can provide, only the few favourable concepts need to be assessed, saving time and money to identify the most favourable concept for implementation. Our tools and experience can quickly be deployed to address your issue.
NLR can support you with:
- Assessing the runway capacity of your airport, in response to changing circumstances or the implementation of new procedures.
- Gaining insight into your airspace capacity, in anticipation of increasing traffic and potential redesign of your airspace.
- Gaining insight into the controller workload, taking into account the complexity of operations.
- Evaluating and comparing different ATM concepts of operations.
- Assessing the impact of new operational procedures.
- Assessing the impact of (temporary) measures on airport or airspace operations.
- Evaluating and validating airport or airspace layout design changes.
- Visualising air traffic operations on the airport or in the airspace.
