Higher-Level Services of an Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A SMGCS) Results of the Prague Ruzyne Trials in the EMMA / 2 Project

Abstract

Under the umbrella of EMMA2 (European Airport Management by A-SMGCS, Part 2), an Integrated Project of the 6th European Framework Programme, a holistic A-SMGCS concept including procedures and requirements was developed and tested in extensive simulation and field trials at four European airports (Prague Ruzyne, Milan Malpensa, Toulouse Blagnac and Paris Charles de Gaulle), using diverse technical solutions and test platforms. The most important results and recommendations are presented in this paper. Even in 2004 ICAO published the A-SMGCS manual as document 9830 [1], describing operational, functional and performance requirements, procedures and operational requirements for the higher levels of A-SMGCS were rather immature at this time or did not exist at all. The present paper addresses those higher level services of an A-SMGCS, like routing, departure management (DMAN), data link communication for ground controlling (TAXI-CPDLC) and onboard guidance services by the example of the technical systems used during the Prague Ruzyne Airport trials.