An airport decision support system for mobiles surveillance & alerting

  • Authors:
  • Gabriel Pestana;Miguel Mira da Silva;Augusto Casaca;João Nunes

  • Affiliations:
  • INESC-ID, Lisboa, PORTUGAL;IST/DEI, Lisboa, PORTUGAL;INESC-ID/INOV, Lisboa, PORTUGAL;ANA-Aeroportos, Lisboa, PORTUGAL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Data engineering for wireless and mobile access
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The improvement of safety on airport surface movements requires an integrated management of the entire airport, which is hard because usually that management is performed independently. This scenario sometimes compromises the overall efficiency of airport operations. The continuous increase of airport traffic has also lead to an escalating number of accidents and incidents on airport surface movements. In case of crisis situations, airport operators involved in the decision-making process have a limited knowledge of the overall traffic situation, thus leading to ground movement hazards. Therefore, the safety of vehicles on the movement area is seen as a major issue. The AIRNET project contributes to the solution of this problem by developing a new low-cost and modular platform for safety management on airport surface movements.The paper presents the AIRNET platform architecture focussing into its innovative characteristics to provide, in an airport environment, the surveillance, control, guidance, and most of all the decision support services for airport operators. The paper also outlines the dataflow within the Ground System and how the data are send/received to/from the on-board systems, which correspond to a simplified version of the corresponding modules on the Ground System.