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FAA/Industry Collaborative Weather Rerouting Workshop
 

Collaborative Weather Rerouting Workshop

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Priorities - Concepts - Research

Problem:

Weather is a significant factor in the daily operations of the National Airspace System (NAS). Due to high traffic levels, severe weather has the potential for causing major disruptions in traffic flows.

In 1995, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) development and air traffic entities signed the Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) "Roles and Responsibilities" guideline for using a new paradigm of collaboration and data sharing for handling constraints, such as weather fronts, in the national airspace system (NAS). The guideline states:

A. Air Traffic Control-Traffic Flow Management (ATC-TFM) will:

  1. Monitor the NAS for constraints that produce capacity and demand problems;
  2. Make these constraints known to the users of the NAS;
  3. In cooperation with the users, develop a baseline solution to the problem created by the constraint.

B. Airline Operational Control will:

  1. Keep ATC-TFM informed of current operational demand and intent;
  2. Provide airline business need plans and designs within the general baseline solution provided by ATC-TFM.

On April 10-11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Air Traffic Systems Development (AUA), the Air Traffic Supervisors Committee (SUPCOM), and the Airline Dispatchers Federation (ADF) sponsored a workshop for red airline dispatchers, traffic flow specialists ( yellow Air Traffic Control System Command Center and green Air Route Traffic Control Center), and blue operational supervisors to discuss collaboration in rerouting air traffic around weather. The MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) acted as the host organization.

Purpose:

The purpose of the workshop was to investigate the roles and responsibilities for weather rerouting and to establish priorities for continued refinement of weather rerouting concepts and flow management decision support research.

Scope:

The workshop focused primarily on three areas of collaboration:

  • Information dissemination to achieve common situational awareness.
  • Automation and procedures development.
  • Practical application in real-time.

Objectives:

  1. A workshop decision on how users will collaborate with FAA decision support systems.
  2. An improved understanding of participant needs and the value of their collaboration.
  3. Progress in reaching consensus in the three identified collaborative focus areas.
  4. Identification and prioritization of weather rerouting research needs.

Post-Workshop Activities:

  • Following up with workshop participants to ensure their contributions were correctly recorded.
  • Using information provided by workshop participants in developing operational concepts for weather rerouting.
  • Expanding user participation to include foreign carriers, the Department of Defense, and general aviation.

Workshop Briefings:

Administrative - Celesta Ball, MITRE/CAASD, Workshop Coordinator.

Welcome Speech: "Collaboration - Beyond the Buzzwords" - Amr ElSawy, Senior Vice President and General Manager, The MITRE Corporation.

FAA Keynote Speech: "The Role of Collaboration in Solving Weather Problems" - Peter Challan, FAA Deputy Associate Administrator for Air Traffic Service.

Industry Keynote Speech: "Weather Rerouting" - Steve Caisse, Flight Superintendent, Delta Airlines.

Invited speaker: "Spring 2001: A Real Exercise in Collaborative Traffic Flow Management" - Jack Kies, FAA ATT-1, Program Director for Air Traffic Tactical Operations.

Weather Products for Decision Support Tools - Joe Sherry, MITRE/CAASD.

Working Sessions - Session Facilitators.

Airlines Focus Area Discussion Summaries, April 10 - 11, 2001.

Air Traffic Control Focus Area Discussion Summaries, April 10 - 11, 2001.

Traffic Flow Management Focus Area Discussion Summaries, April 10 - 11, 2001
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