TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT
Figure 1: Skyflow in the Air
Authorities of India’s new
center
Figure 2: The new Central Air
Traffic Flow Management
Center at Delhi
Figure 3: Brazil´s DECEA air
traffic flow management
solution, running at the
Air Navigation Management
Center (CGNA) in Rio de
Janeiro
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Part of the solution is the recent
implementation of the Skyflow next
generation ATFM system in the new Center
at Vasant Kunj in Delhi.
South American coordination
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world,
ICAO reports from South America show
that several agreements have been signed
since 2018 to increase the air traffic flow
management coordination amongst different
states. An example is the ATFM service in
Argentina, which has been in operation for a
year at the flow management unit (FMU) in
Ezeiza, when the overall status of ATFM
implementation in the SAM region has
reached 71% of coverage. In addition,
reports indicate that Argentina has decided
not to issue any more NOTAMs on ATFM
measures, due to the domino effect
generated in adjacent countries. This has led
to considerations of the use of collaborative
decision-making among air traffic
management services of Argentina, Uruguay
and Brazil.
Another great leap in integration of flow
management is soon expected since by 2020,
since Department of Airspace Control
(DECEA), the Brazilian air navigation
service provider (ANSP), is working on a
modern centralization concept for flight
plans at the CGNA, its Air Navigation
Management Center (see figure 3). These
are examples of some movements towards a
more integrated environment for the future
of ATFM in this region, closely aligned with
the global trends for this matter. But
moving from the concepts and trends to
effective implementation is dependent on
the required technical facilities.
As such, at the World Air Traffic
Management Congress in Madrid this year
ATECH presented new integrated ATM
solutions under the “Makron” family of
products. Some of these tools are the
system-wide information management
module (SWIM Aquila) and the new
IWXXM (ICAO Meteorological Information
Exchange Model) compatible meteorological
information database (Opmet Aura). All
these tools are able to run within specific
environments or integrated with the Atech
air traffic control system Sagitario as well as
with Skyflow.
The development of these tools is based
on a transformative vision of what air
navigation services provider’s responses are
to the expectation of a near doubling in air
travel demand over the next two decades.
This vision guides the efforts to address the
issues of growing traffic and lack of capacity.
The efforts include the implementation of
modern ATFM systems, as preconized by
ICAO Document 9971, amalgamated with
advanced information sharing capabilities,
using SWIM as described in Document
“Being the seventh largest aviation market with 187
million passengers in 2017-18, India is on a high growth
trajectory. It is imperative that we build technological
capabilities to keep pace with this growth”.
Civil Aviation Minister of India, Hardeep Puri