Assessment of Segmented Standard Taxi Route Procedure to Integrate Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems at Civil Airports using Fast- Time Simulations

Okuniek, Nikolai; Finke, Michael; Lorenz, Sandro

doi:10.1109/dasc43569.2019.9081738

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“…The number of tugs available just for RPA towing also correlates with fuel consumption, as it influences the overall distance tugs operate. In sum, according to Reference [9], towing operations in Baseline 2 cause the lowest environmental impact, but the Solution is at least not worse than today's Reference.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…The assessment of runway throughput and taxi times is discussed in detail in Reference [9]. As a main conclusion, no significant differences in runway throughput between Reference, Baseline 2 and Solution scenarios became apparent.…”

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“…Thus, resulting taxi times vary; scenarios with runway 07 in use have a greater variation in taxi times than scenarios with runway 25 in use. Finally, [9] considers both towing operations and the SSTR procedure feasible solutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Results concerning environmental impact were comprehensively published in Reference [9]. Fuel consumption and emissions showed higher values in the Solution compared to Baseline 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within the Single European Sky ATM Research Programme (SESAR) project PJ03a Surface Management Operations (SuMO) Solution 9, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) developed a first and simple concept on how the integration of unmanned aircraft can be achieved with segmented standard taxi routes. Supplementary to two preceding publications at the yearly Digital Avionics System Conferences (DASC) in 2018 and 2019 [8,9], this article gives a complete overview on the whole research activities done by DLR in PJ03a-09, providing numerous insights not yet published. This includes detailed human factors analysis conducted with pilots, air traffic controllers and remote pilots for the first (V1) validation cycle, as well as comprehensive qualitative feedback which is not yet contained in previous publications.…”

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Segmented Standard Taxi Routes—A New Way to Integrate Remotely Piloted Aircraft into Airport Surface Traffic

Finke

Lorenz

2020

Aerospace

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The safe and orderly integration of unmanned aircraft in the airspace is surely among the most difficult challenges to be solved in the near future. However, a safe and fluid traffic management on the ground is not less important and not less challenging, as completely different aspects have to be considered here. Much less work has been done yet to solve this question. In the frame of the project Surface Management Operations (SuMO), a procedural solution has been developed to enable fully integrated unmanned airport ground movements while allowing air traffic controllers to guarantee a safe, orderly and expeditious flow of traffic. This concept is based on the idea of segmented standard taxi routes for unmanned aircraft, while maintaining current procedures for manned aircraft. From 2017 to 2019, a two-stage validation campaign validated this new solution. No concerns regarding safety or human factors issues were revealed. Access and Equity, as well as Interoperability, were found to be very satisfying. A fast time simulation of mixed manned and unmanned traffic, using the proposed solution, was almost as efficient as pure manned traffic and can easily be implemented at medium-size airports. This article provides information about the experimental setup and the conduction of both validations stages, and illustrates obtained results. It closes with a discussion and an outlook.

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“…Results concerning environmental impact were comprehensively published in Reference [9]. Fuel consumption and emissions showed higher values in the Solution compared to Baseline 2.…”

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