Validation Results of Airport Total Operations Planner CLOU

Abstract

Holistic planning systems and information sharing has become a major field of research for the ATM research community. First concepts and prototypes have been developed to understand and handle the complexity. Of course, there are expectations in such systems, and they have to be evaluated and validated: does a holistic planning system improve punctuality and resource use at airports? This paper will answer this question for the cooperative local resource planner CLOU, a prototype of a total operations planner that was designed and implemented as a decision support tool. CLOU generates target times for each arriving and departing aircraft within the next hours and uses target functions, given by the stakeholders airline, ATC and airport to meet their wishes. To understand the presented results, the planning process is outlined; the validation scenarios described and special validation results are discussed.