00815734

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1744-07

http://scholar.google.com...ouli&publication_year=2001

In response to growing air transport congestion, new air traffic management (ATM) concepts have been put forward to ameliorate existing problems. By their nature, ATM systems are highly complex, and their development and implementation require substantial financial resources. Moreover, the introduction of a new ATM system generates tangible as well as intangible benefits and costs. Therefore, a methodological framework capable of addressing all specific characteristics of the ATM system cost-effectiveness evaluation should be developed. The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to develop a methodological framework for evaluating the TORCH system (i.e., a new ATM concept for Europe), and second, to present the results of the application of the proposed framework for assessing the cost-effectiveness of the TORCH system. The proposed methodology was applied with the help of a panel of European ATM experts. The application results are intuitively appealing and indicate a strong convergence of the expert opinions concerning the most preferable ATM system. More specifically, the results of the evaluation suggest that an investment in TORCH will improve the safety, operational, and environmental performance of the ATM system as well as the working conditions of the air traffic controllers, and at the same time, the TORCH system will be marginally cost-effective.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1744, Issues in Aviation: Airports, Capacity, and Air Traffic Control and Management.

English

p. 52-64

2001

Transportation Research Record

0309072026

Figures (17) ; References (7) ; Tables (6)

Advanced traffic management systems; Air traffic control; Cost effectiveness

Europe

Aviation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting

TRIS, TRB

Aug 3 2001 12:00AM

• ESTIMATING CAPACITY OF EUROPE'S AIRSPACE USING A SIMULATION MODEL OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER WORKLOAD
• INVESTIGATION OF INFORMATION NEEDS OF DEPARTING AIR PASSENGERS
• LESSONS FROM AIRPORT PRIVATIZATION, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND REGULATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
• MEASURING THE LEVEL OF SERVICES AT AIRPORT PASSENGER TERMINALS: COMPARISON OF PERCEIVED AND OBSERVED TIME
• MODELING AIRSIDE AIRPORT OPERATIONS USING GENERAL-PURPOSE, ACTIVITY-BASED, DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION TOOLS
• NEAR-TERM PROCEDURAL ENHANCEMENTS IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
• PROSPECTS FOR INCREASING AVERAGE AIRCRAFT SIZE AT CONGESTED AIRPORTS
• SHORT-TERM DELAY MITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT