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Títol: Research in ATM procedures and en-route charges

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Director/a: BARRADO MUXÍ, CRISTINA

Departament: DAC

Títol: Research in ATM procedures and en-route charges

Data inici oferta: 29-01-2019     Data finalització oferta: 29-09-2019


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    DG ENG AERO/SIS TEL
    DG ENG AERO/TELEMÀT
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: Fora UPC    
 
        Supervisor/a extern: Omar López Ruiz
        Institució/Empresa: Airplane Solutions
        Titulació del Director/a: Enginyer Superior en Informàtica per la
 
Paraules clau:
flight planning, strategic airspace, route charges, optimisation
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
WORK PACKAGES Tracking

Preliminary study of en-route systems Scope of the route charges system
Principles for establishing the cost-based for en route charges
Principles for calculation of Unit Rates
Application of the Route Charges System and Conditions of Payments
Study of sectors, airways and European airspace
Airlines have to decide between multiple options when deciding about the best route of each of their aircraft. In this project the enroute charges will be a major topic to investigate for such decission. The project will have 3 phases: First we will investigate the implementation of en-route charges system, its scope, the principles for establishing the cost-based for enroute charges, the principles of calculation of Unit Rates and the application of the charges; Second, the implementation of en-route charges, including the computation of base scenario (Sectors, airways…), the input traffic data implementation, calculation of direct costs in real scenarios; And third, the analysis and comparison of real and initial scenario.
The work will end with the comparision of initial and actual aircraft performances, a final study of routes optimitzation and the conclusions.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
Our skies are busier than ever. And with commercial air traffic set to double in the next
15 years, they will only get busier. Soon, there will be 25,000 manned flights in the air
at any given time. Furthermore, airlines face cost management challenges which derive
in overpayment for the airlines. This project is in collaboration with Airplane Solutions
company, which in order to control DOCs and reduce this overpayment, has introduced a
solution that provides a real-time costs calculation.
The objective of this project is to develop a tool which analyse the total cost variation of
the en-route phase between the real flight and the flight plan according to the principles
of current Europe En-Route Charge System operated by Eurocontrol. The three principal
parameters to calculate the route charge are the great circle distance of the flight (the path
used to calculate it is extracted from the flight plan), the MTOM and the Unit Rate per
Eurocontrol State Member.
To generate the working environment, first airspaces and a Python script have been developed
to process the sectors and the flights, extracted from NEST application, in order
to compute the en-route charges. Afterwards, the results are plotted in CARTO platform,
which allows to see the results on a map in a very clearly visual display.
At last, an analysis of the results is performed. In this case, a global analysis has been
done first. Next, the analysis is focused by airline and involved European countries. With
this exhaustive analysis it can be demonstrated that there is a cost variation between the
flight plan and the real route, emphasizing that in global, the real routes suppose benefits
in en-route charges because these charges based on flight plans are high-priced.
In conclusion, there is an extra cost in the en-route charges and so on, this project helps
airlines and the air traffic management to build a more efficient and economic airspace.

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