Vickie Withnell, Manchester Airport Group
Andrew Wilkinson, Managing Director, PenBay Solutions Europe Ltd

GIS systems have been developed for use at airports over many years, and have traditionally mapped the operating surfaces and utilities across the site.  More recently, they have been developed to reveal environmental impacts such as noise pollution and areas for conservation, as well as analysing the travelling habits of passengers.  However, airports are complex systems, most transactions with passengers and staff occur inside buildings and the full potential of a GIS has yet to be realised.  Manchester Airport is pushing the boundaries of its GIS to deliver a service to its passengers that puts the customer first.  This presentation reveals how the Airport has taken an holistic approach to its strategic development, and is using spatial data to realise its ambitions.  It follows the passenger's journey and shows how the Airport's GIS can shape the strategic thinking on the development of a region's transportation network, the Airport's expansion plans, develop relations in the community and achieve its bold Carbon Neutrality target by 2015.  The presentation then explores the internal environment, and shows how GIS inside the building can benefit Security planning, the Retail and Marketing practices, together with engineering, planning and project tasks.  It will also reveal how the expenditure on a GIS will provide a calculable ROI.

This presentation will share lessons learned and best practices experienced in various airport GIS implementations in the USA over the past 15 years.  This presentation will be based on examples from airports including Orlando, Los Angeles, Denver, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Washington DC, Baltimore, Fort Myers, San Jose, Houston, and Atlanta.  The key elements required for a successful airport GIS program will be presented spanning technology, data, and business process improvement aspects.

Our visit will include presentations on GIS as a community relations tool, the role of GIS analysis in managing transport issues, GIS and sustainable development/regulations management, and GIS as an operational management tool.

Thank you to Ms. Vickie Withnell and the Manchester Airport Group for organizing the tour!

Making 'Planes Run On Time
Ken Reid, Eurocontrol

The ATM system of today is based on scheduled or submitted flight times which are computed some time in advance of the flight being executed. These times may be based on seasonal average times or based on a pair of less than optimum airport slots. The result is that the system does not
have the discipline or robustness to ensure fidelity to these times. An effect of this "failing" is that industry defines "on time" performance as falling within +/- 15 minutes around the scheduled times. In consequence this lack of predictability within the ATM system of today renders it rather three dimensional and somewhat inefficient caused by the absence of the essential rigorous application of time control.

Yet ATM is and will continue to be faced with the challenge of providing sufficient airport and airspace capacity safely in a safe and economic way. The lack of such capacity will serve as a constraint to regional and global economic growth. Recognising this challenge the authorities in many States and Regions have ambitious plans for developing new and significantly more capable ATM systems. Considerable effort and investment is already being made particularly in Europe through its Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) initiative and in the United States with its Next Generation ATM System (NextGen) programme. These future systems will be highly integrated and automated, based on the concepts of 4D trajectory management, user preferred flight trajectories enabled by Performance-based Navigation (PBN) and supported by the universal adoption of CDM.

These highly advanced performance based systems will provide the means for a predictable, capable and globally interoperable ATM system. The system in theory should provide the required capacity, efficiency and economy in a safe and affordable way. Nevertheless, given the vagaries of
weather, of aircraft serviceability and the myriad of other factors which contribute to disruption, the achievement of the regularity of schedules, essential to realisation of the full the capacity is to be realised will remain the challenge. The key to progress is to resolve the time dimension.

Nevertheless, to date the material published by SESAR and NextGen provide a good insight into the technical solutions proposed for "traditional"3D flight operations but are more opaque when it comes to the fourth dimension, time. This paper explores the concept of establishing an ATM system enabled through the rigorous application of a common time. It proposes the adoption of a "Time-ordered system" to ensure "planes run on time."

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Airports GIS Enterprise-Level Services 
Marcus Z. Rouhani, MSAD (Eng.), Airport GIS Program Manager, Aeronautical Information Management, Federal Aviation Administration, United States

Airports GIS (AGIS) is a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiative to collect, validate, store, maintain, and disseminate accurate, complete, and timely geographic and non-geographic administrative, operational, and service data for airports  information to the FAA and its various lines of business.   AGIS is thus the single authoritative source to support efficient and safe airport operations.  The Enterprise Web application delivers digital airport information, including airport survey, feature, and imagery data, to various FAA lines of business and external users in formats that conform to widely accepted standards.  This data is provided through an interface that allows users and systems to make requests across networks using platform-independent calls.  Airport feature, map, and imagery data is accessed using OGC compliant WMS, WFS, and WCS interface standards. and the data is also accessible in AIXM format.  System development is on a phased implementation and roll-out to support NexGen and AIM activities such as an airport data change system, integration with NASR, digital NOTAMS, AIRNAV as well as enhanced functionality of the e-ALP system.

1130 - 1215

GIS Application for Automating Land Use Development Proposal Reviews in the Vicinity of Toronto Pearson International Airport
Wojtek Zurek OLS, Superintendent Land Use Planning, Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Toronto Pearson International Airport

The proposed GIS application is intended to facilitate reviews of land use development proposals in the municipalities surrounding Toronto-Pearson.

Over the past several years, a practice has developed whereby the GTAA has received, reviewed, analysed and commented on land use development proposals in attempt to monitor and mitigate possible negative impacts of proposed land use developments on airport and aircraft operations. This presentation will describe application functionality including automation, review capacity, and quality control procedures that will address anticipated higher number and increasing complexity of incoming proposals.