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Final Project Report

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Project Title Consolidation of Operational Concept Definition and Validation

Project Number 05.02

Project Manager NATS

Deliverable Name Final Project Report

Deliverable ID D01

Edition 01.00.00

Template Version 03.00.04

Task contributors

NATS.

Abstract

Project 05.02 (P05.02) was a transversal project which ran throughout the course of the SESAR programme from 2010 to 2016. P05.02 had responsibility for consolidating the concept development across SESAR Work Package 5 – Terminal Manoeuvring Area (TMA), and for providing guidance for validation strategy. The report identifies the key deliverables - the Detailed Operational Description documents for TMA and Validation Strategies for TMA.

Project Number 05.02 Edition 01.00.00 D01- Final Project Report

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©SESAR JOINT UNDERTAKING, 2015. Created by NATS;for the SESAR Joint Undertaking within the frame of the SESAR Programme co-financed by the EU and EUROCONTROL. Reprint with approval of publisher and the source properly acknowledged

Authoring & Approval

Prepared By - Authors of the document.

Name & Company Position & Title Date

Richard Pugh / NATS P05.02 Manager (former) 09/12/2015

Siân Andrews / NATS P05.02 Manager 28/06/2016

Reviewed By - Reviewers internal to the project.


Laurence Rognin/ ECTL P05.02 Project Member 11/07/2016

Mike Whitmarsh / NATS P05.02 Project Member 05/07/2016

Gilda Bruno / ENAV P05.02 Project Member 12/07/2016

Jorge Valle / INDRA P05.02 Project Member 12/07/2016

Reviewed By - Other SESAR projects, Airspace Users, staff association, military, Industrial Support, other organisations.


John Godsell / NATS WP5 Lead 25/07/2016

Charlotte Chambelin / DSNA P04.02 Manager 18/07/2016

Alan Groskreutz / ENAIRE P06.02 Manager No response received

Etienne De Muelenaere / EUROCONTROL P07.02 Manager No response received

Steve Morton / EUROCONTROL P10.01.07 Manager 14/09/2016

Didier Delibes / AIRBUS P09.49 Manager 14/09/2016

Approved for submission to the SJU By - Representatives of the company involved in the project.


Siân Andrews / NATS P05.02 Manager 25/07/2016

Bruno Favennec / EUROCONTROL P05.02 Project Member 26/07/2016

Gilda Bruno / ENAV P05.02 Project Member 25/07/2016

Jorge Valle / INDRA P05.02 Project Member 22/07/2016

Janet Firminger / LEONARDO P05.02 Member (former) 21/07/2016

Rejected By - Representatives of the company involved in the project.


None

Rational for rejection

None.

Document History

Edition Date Status Author Justification

00.00.01 19/05/2015 Draft Richard Pugh New Document

00.00.02

09/12/2015 Revised Draft Richard Pugh Updated Template


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00.00.03 28/06/2016 Revised Draft Siân Andrews Updated Template

00.01.00 26/07/2016 Final version Siân Andrews This version includes review comments and approvals.

00.01.01 22/09/2016 Final version Siân Andrews Updated in response to SJU assessment

01.00.00 27/09/2016 Final Version Siân Andrews Updated in response to SJU second assessment

Intellectual Property Rights (foreground)

This deliverable consists of SJU foreground.


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Acronyms

Acronym Definition

2D 2 Dimensional

AMAN Arrival Manager

ASAS Airborne Separation Assistance System

ATM Air Traffic Management

CCO Continuous Climb Operations

CDO Continuous Descent Operations

CONOPS Concept of Operations Document

CTA Controlled Time of Arrival

CTO Controlled Time Over

CWP Controller Working Position

DOD Detailed Operational Description

DS Dataset

ENB Enabler

FATO Final Approach and Take Off area

GLS GNSS Landing System

GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System

ILS Instrument Landing System

LPV Localiser Performance with Vertical Guidance

OFA Operational Focus Area

OI Operational Improvement

P Project

PCP Pilot Common Project

R&D Research and Development

RBT/RMT Reference Business Trajectory/Reference Mission Trajectory

RNP Required Navigation Performance


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SBT/SMT Shared Business Trajectory/Shared Mission Trajectory

SE System Engineering

SJU SESAR Joint Undertaking

TMA Terminal Manoeuvring Area

V&V Roadmap Verification and Validation Roadmap

VFR Visual Flight Rules

VALS Validation Strategy

WP Work Package


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1 Project Overview

P05.02 was an operational project responsible for the Operational Concept of the TMA (Terminal Manoeuvring Area); ensuring the coherency and consistency of the various contributions of operational projects involved with TMA aspects and also those addressing other domains (En-Route, Airport and Network) and the overall concept. This objective was achieved through the delivery of the Detailed Operational Description (DOD) documents for the TMA.

P05.02 was also responsible for the coordination and consolidation of the TMA Concept validation, which was achieved through the delivery of Validation Strategy (VALS) documents for the TMA.

1.1 Project progress and contribution to the Master Plan

The principal objectives of the project have been to develop the Concept of Operation for TMA operations to ensure coherency and consistency with the higher-level SESAR Concept of Operations and with the detailed concepts being developed by operational projects for the TMA; and to support concept validation of TMA activities. As such, P05.02 has performed a role to ensure that the progress of concept development across TMA projects was consistent with the Air Traffic Management (ATM) Masterplan. Specific Objectives were to:

Develop and maintain the TMA concept to the necessary level of maturity required to support the validation activities.

Develop a consistent approach and set of high-level requirements for TMA Validation Activities.

Manage TMA concept updates through the Masterplan change control process; ensuring co-ordination took place with WP-B (Target concept projects) and other WPs as appropriate.

Initiate stakeholder engagement in respect of the TMA Concept and assist the SJU as necessary in any related Stakeholder buy-in activities.

Review the outputs from TMA projects to ensure consistency between projects and to ensure alignment with the SESAR programme required methodology and processes.

Act as the lead reviewer for ATM operational aspects related to the TMA in the SESAR Programme Release process (System Engineering Review process).

During 2015/2016 P05.02 took the lead in producing a Transition Validation Strategy for the SESAR 2020 programme, coordinating and consolidating inputs from the other equivalent projects covering the En Route, Airport and Network domains.

P05.02 also supported project B4.2 (Project responsible for developing the Concept of Operations) to define a Transition Concept of Operations for the SESAR2020 programme.

Throughout the SESAR programme P05.02 has had a formal role in the ATM Masterplan change control process as the lead reviewer for all proposed changes to the ATM Masterplan concerning TMA operations i.e. all change requests concerning Operational Improvements linked to TMA have been coordinated by P05.02. P05.02 also coordinated with the system federating project members to ensure the correct coverage of enablers against OIs. This included the updates for Dataset (DS) DS9, DS10, DS11, DS12, DS13, DS14, DS15 and DS16. P05.02 has been instrumental in developing the Masterplan update process and applying lessons learned.

P05.02 has worked together with the other equivalent projects which cover the En Route, Airport and Network domains, management projects in other ATM domain areas and with the SJU in order to develop improvements to the programme. We have participated in monthly coordination webexes with our counterpart projects and quarterly face-to-face meetings with B4.2, as well as providing expertise to other activities across the programme when required.


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The TMA Operational Improvements (OIs) which were developed during the SESAR programme under the high level responsibility of the TMA Global Coordination and Management project were grouped into four Operational Focus Areas (OFAs). P05.02 contributed to the creation of Operational Focus Areas to coordinate the activities of operational projects, systems project and other projects around specific Operational Improvements. P05.02 had a role covering four OFAs and one Enabling project, and has had constant liaison and provided significant support and guidance to these OFAs and associated primary projects. The project has ensured P05.02 attendance at OFA meetings and was involved in the review of documents produced by primary projects/OFAs, in addition to those which have formed part of the formal Release process.

As part of the P05.02 role to ensure consistency and alignment with SESAR process requirements it has been the operational reviewer for System Engineering (SE) reviews, which were the yearly review processes run by the programme to determine and assess the maturity of the SESAR Solutions. P05.02 has supported the initial planning reviews (SE#1) and final maturity assessment (SE#3) reviews for all SESAR Releases for the OFAs under the responsibility of P05.02. As part of this, the project has reviewed all programme deliverables contributing to SESAR Solutions for the TMA.

The SESAR Solutions under responsibility of P05.02 Operational Focus Areas are listed below:

Optimised 2D-3D Routes

Enhanced Terminal Airspace for RNP-based Operations

Enhanced terminal operations with LPV procedures

Enhanced terminal operations with automatic RNP transition to ILS/GLS

Optimised Route Network using Advanced RNP

Point Merge in complex TMA

Continuous Descent Operations (CDO)

Enhanced Rotorcraft and GA operations in the TMA

Dynamic and Enhanced Routes and Airspace

ASAS Spacing

ASAS Spacing applications Remain behind and Merge behind

Ground-Based Separation in TMA

High Productivity Controller Team Organisation

Collaborative Control

Improved Performance in the Provision of Separation

Enhanced Arrival and Departure Management

Extended Arrival Management (AMAN) horizon

Controlled Time of Arrival (CTA) in Medium density/medium complexity environment

Arrival Management into Multiple Airports

AMAN and Point Merge

CWP for En-route & TMA

Each of the Solutions above is made up of one or more Operational Improvements. In the ATM Masterplan (Dataset 15) the Operational Improvements are also grouped by Steps based on the expected evolution of the overall ATM Concept of Operations. Step 1: Time Based Operations - this was the building block for the implementation of the SESAR concept.


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Step 2: Trajectory Based Operations - this builds upon the time based operations using more accurate and complete data concerning the aircraft trajectories and increased sharing of this information. As the lead reviewer for ATM operational aspects related to the TMA domain in the SESAR yearly System Engineering Review process, P05.02 Operational experts contributed to the final assessment of V3 maturity of the proposed solutions and the associated Operational Improvements, evaluating readiness to enter the industrialisation phase, according to the European Operational Concept Validation Methodology (E-OCVM) as described in Figure 1.

Figure 1 E-OCVM Maturity Levels within SESAR

The SESAR Solutions and OIs under the responsibility of P05.02 (and addressed by primary projects) are listed in the following table, including the maturity level throughout the life of the project:

SESAR Solution OI Code OI Name Maturity at project start

Maturity at project end1

Enhanced Rotorcraft and GA operations in the TMA

AOM-0104 Enhanced Rotorcraft Operations at VFR FATOs with specific Point-in-Space RNP procedures using satellite augmentation

V2 V3

Optimised Route Network using Advanced RNP

AOM-0404 Optimised Route Network using Advanced RNP

V1 V3


AOM-0603 Enhanced Terminal Airspace for RNP-based Operations

V1 V3


AOM-0605 Enhanced terminal operations with automatic RNP transition to ILS/GLS/LPV

V1 V3


AOM-0605 Enhanced terminal operations with automatic RNP transition to ILS/GLS/LPV

V1 V3

1 Where the maturity of an OI does not show progress between project start and project end, this is due to the fact that it is a successor OI which will be carried forward to SESAR 2020 and the maturity of the predecessor OI has been the focus in SESAR 1.


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Continuous Descent Operations (CDO)

AOM-0702-A

Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) V2 V3

Dynamic and Enhanced Routes and Airspace

AOM-0702-B

Advanced Continuous Descent Operations

V1 V1

AOM-0705-A2

Continuous Climb Operations (CCO)

AOM-0705-B

Advanced Continuous Climb Operations

AOM-0806 Dynamic Management of Terminal Airspace Routes and Transition

Improved Performance in the Provision of separation

CM-0206 Conflict Detection and Resolution in the TMA using trajectory data

V0 V1

CM-0208-A Automated Ground Based Flight Conformance Monitoring in the TMA in Step 1

CM-0606 Separation Management in the TMA using Pre-defined Routes with 2D RNP Specifications

Advanced Separation Management

CM-0208-B Automated Ground Based Flight Conformance and Intent Monitoring in the TMA

V1 V1

CM-0408 Enhanced Conflict Detection and Resolution in the TMA

CM-0608 Separation Management in the TMA using RBTs with 2D RNP Specifications

High Productivity Controller Team Organisation CM-0304

Sector Team Operations Adapted to New Responsibilities in the TMA, 1 Planning to several Tactical Controllers team structure

V1 Partial V2

Collaborative Control

CM-0305

Sector Team Operations Adapted to New Responsibilities and Operating Procedures involving reduced Coordination in the TMA

V1 V1/Partial V2

Controlled Time of Arrival (CTA) in Medium density/medium complexity environment

TS-0103 Controlled Time of Arrival (CTA) in medium density/complexity environment

V1 V3

ASAS Spacing applications Remain behind and Merge behind

TS-0105-A ASAS Spacing – target direct to merge point (Speed/simple geometry)

V1 V3 not achieved

Airborne Spacing Flight Deck Interval Management

TS-0108 ASAS Spacing – target not direct to a merge point (Speed and Lateral/more complex geometry)

V1 V1

Extended Arrival Management with overlapping AMAN operations and

TS-0109 Controlled Time of Arrival (CTA) in high density/complexity environment

V1 V1

2 AOM-0705-A has been deleted in DS16 and the progress made will be captured in AOM-0705-B, which is considered to encompass AOM-0705-A.


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interaction with DCB and CTA TS-0305-B

Arrival Management Extended to En Route Airspace - overlapping AMAN operations

V1 Partial V2

Use of Arrival and Departure Management Information for Traffic Optimisation within the TMA

TS-0302-A Departure Management Information from Multiple Airports

V1

Partial V2

TS-0302-B Departure Management from Multiple Airports

TS-0307 Integrated Arrival Departure Management for traffic optimisation within the TMA Airspace

Arrival Management into Multiple Airports

TS-0303 Arrival Management into Multiple Airports V2 V3

Extended Arrival Management (AMAN horizon)

TS-0305-A Arrival Management Extended to En Route Airspace - single TMA

V2 V3

1.2 Project achievements

Detailed Operational Descriptions

Project 5.02 has delivered a series of Detailed Operational Description Documents (DODs) in two separate threads:

Step 1 DOD (Time Based Operations)

Step 2 DOD (Trajectory Based Operations)

For each thread the DOD has been iteratively developed to maintain consistency with the ATM Masterplan and alignment with the SESAR Concept of Operations. It has been updated also to reflect the outcomes and recommendations from validation activities within the TMA domain. The DODs have therefore been used as both an input to primary project and as a consolidation of primary project results3.

P05.02 contributed to the Transition Concept of Operations for the SESAR 2020 programme, which was delivered by project B4.2 (Project responsible for developing the Concept of Operations).

Validation Strategies

Project 5.02 has also delivered a series of Validation Strategy (VALS) documents.

Validation Strategy for Step 1

Validation Strategy for Step 2

Transition Validation Strategy for SESAR 2020

These VALS documents establish high-level validation objectives to be validated by primary operational projects.

P05.02 developed the process for capturing Integrated Validation needs. This approach to Integrated Validation was followed by all the equivalent projects across the ATM domains. P05.02 has supported projects with organising major Integrated Validation exercises through review of plans, provision of high level scenario descriptions and providing a lessons learned paper. Such exercises have been particularly challenging to manage - the approach developed provides a basis for future European collaborative validation exercises.

European ATM Architecture (EATMA)

Modelling Activities: For each Operational Focus Area under the responsibility of P05.02, the project has coordinated the development of operational process models, which now form part of the

3 The latest versions of the DODs were produced in Q2 2015; therefore no exercise results after June 2015 have been incorporated into the final version of the DODs.


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European ATM Architecture (EATMA). This has ensured that each of the concepts developed within the TMA domain was defined in EATMA using a consistent approach. The process models are included in the Detailed Operational Description Deliverables but are formally maintained within EATMA (online portal). The operational process models were subsequently used as the basis of system modelling via sequence diagrams in the Technical Architecture Description document.

Contribution to the PCP

P05.02 has contributed to the PCP (Pilot Common Project) through supporting the following solutions to reach V3 maturity:




Arrival Management Extended to En Route Airspace - single TMA

1.3 Project Deliverables The following table presents the relevant deliverables that have been produced by the project.

Reference Title Description

D84 Step 1 DOD Report - Fifth update This document is the WP5 TMA Step 1 Detailed Operational Description. It details and refines the TMA Operational Concept focusing on Step 1 'Time Based Operations'. It is aligned with Integrated Roadmap Dataset 13. 'Time Based Operations' is a building block for the implementation of the SESAR concept and is focused on flight efficiency, predictability and environment.

M319 DOD Step 2 Iteration 3 This document is the WP5 TMA Step 2 Detailed Operational Description. It details and refines the TMA Operational Concept focusing on Step 2 'Trajectory Based Operations'. It is aligned with Integrated Roadmap Dataset 13. 'Trajectory Based Operations' are focused on safety, flight efficiency, predictability, environmental sustainability, cost effectiveness and capacity. This is a milestone version of the document and forms the final detailed operational concept for TMA to step 2, which provided input to the SESAR 2020 Transition Conops.

D85 TMA Validation Strategy for Concept Step 1 - update 2014

The document guides WP5 OFA coordinators and primary projects in their validation activities, ensuring that all processes are kept in line with the overarching SESAR WP methodology and concept. It provides a detailed description of what should be conducted in terms of validation activities to prove fitness for purpose of Step 1 TMA concept elements. The TMA concept elements were mapped to OFA and OIs in order to determine the TMA validation requirements for Step 1, and are aligned with Integrated Roadmap Dataset 13. The comparison between the validation strategy and the projects validation activities enables inconsistencies


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to be detected, both in terms of gaps and overlaps.

M323 TMA Validation Strategy for Concept Step 2 - update 2014

The document guides WP5 Primary Projects and potentially System Projects in their Step 2 validation activities, ensuring that all processes are kept in line with the overarching SESAR WP methodology and concept. It provides a detailed description of what should be conducted in terms of validation activities to prove fitness for purpose of Step 2 TMA concept elements. It was based on a top-down approach completed with some bottom-up information based on inputs as known at the end of October 2014 (e.g. ATM Master Plan, Release Strategy, V&V Roadmap, OFA material). This is a milestone version of the document and forms the final Validation Strategy for TMA to step 2, which provided input to the SESAR 2020 Transition Validation Strategy. It is aligned with Integrated Roadmap Dataset 13.

D109 Transition Validation Strategy for SESAR 2020

This document has been produced together with the equivalent projects covering the En Route, Airport and Network domains to describe why and how each SESAR 2020 Solution needs to be validated. It is structured around SESAR 2020 key features and documents the validation objectives and scenarios for each SESAR 2020 Solution and is aligned with Integrated Roadmap Dataset 15.

1.4 Contribution to Standardisation

P05.02 has not directly contributed to any standardisation activity (e.g. in EUROCONTROL, EUROCAE, ICAO groups) because these activities were the responsibility of lower level Research and Development projects. P05.02 members did however contribute actively in the discussion of different topics along the SESAR programme. E.g. The transition from SBT/SMT to RBT/RMT, the trajectory management concept, use of multiple CTOs, etc. The result of the discussions generated around those topics was used to provide a common and agreed perspective on the concepts behind those topics. It allowed the DODs of all ATM domains and the B4.2 CONOPS to be aligned and coherent among them.

1.5 Project Conclusion and Recommendations

Conclusion

P05.02 has successfully completed its project objectives and has made a significant contribution to the success of the programme, primarily through the production and maintenance of the DOD and VALS documents for the TMA. These key documents provided requirements and objectives that were used to ensure the consistency and alignment of the work of the operational projects, which were managing validations. The role of P05.02 within the SESAR programme has been the primary mechanism for ensuring the consistency of TMA concept development:

Across projects within the TMA domain


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With the overall SESAR Concept of Operations and other operational WPs

With SESAR programme process and requirements

P05.02 has highlighted the importance of using the Integrated Roadmap to ensure consistency between the high level top-down concept and the detailed primary project bottom-up developments.

Recommendations

The final deliverables from P05.02 should provide the starting point for TMA research activities to be conducted in the SESAR 2020 programme. These address both the envisaged scope of R&D activities related to the TMA (Contribution to the SESAR 2020 Transition CONOPS), and the initial Transition Validation Strategy for SESAR 2020.

These documents have been produced taking into consideration the outputs from the Release 1 to 4 Review processes and expected assumptions from the Release 5 review (which was conducted after the production of the Transition documents). Therefore it is recommended that the SESAR 2020 programme also considers the output and recommendations from the Release 5 Review, which describe the final maturity achieved for the concepts within the TMA domain and are the basis for continuing research into these and related concepts.


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2 References

[1] SESAR Programme Management Plan, Edition 03.00.01

[2] European ATM Master Plan

[3] Multilateral Framework Agreement (“MFA”) signed between the SJU, EUROCONTROL and its 15 selected members on August 11, 2009, amended on 14 June 2010, 19 October 2010 and 2 July 2012

[4] B4.2, Transition ConOps SESAR 2020 - Consolidated deliverable with contribution from Operational Federating Projects, D106, 01.01.00, 30/06/16

[5] P05.02, Step 1 DOD Report available - First Release Milestone, D100, 00.00.01, 31/01/11

[6] P05.02, Step 1 DOD Report - Second Release Milestone, D101, 00.01.00, 13/10/11

[7] P05.02, Step 1 DOD Report - Fifth update, D84, 00.01.01, 30/04/15

[8] P05.02, Initial WP Time Based Validation Strategy Report available, D51, 00.00.05, 10/12/12

[9] P05.02, TMA Validation Strategy for Concept Step 1 - update 2014, D85, 00.00.04, 14/07/15

[10] P05.02, Early Technical Assessment for Ground System Impact (Initial Draft), D64

[11] P05.02, Transition Validation Strategy for SESAR 2020, D109, 01.00.00, 30/06/16

[12] P05.02, DOD Step 2 Iteration 3, M319, 00.01.01, 09/06/15

[13] P05.02, TMA Validation Strategy for Concept Step 2 - update 2014, M323, 00.00.03, 14/07/15

[14] B04.02 SESAR Concept of Operations Step 1 Final Edition, D124, 02.02.00, 30/07/2015

[15] B04.02 SESAR Concept of Operations Step 2 edition 2014, D105, 01.01.00, 21/12/2014

[16] E-OCVM - European Operational Concept Validation Methodology, version 3.0, February 2010

[17] P10.01.07, Technical Architecture Description - Cycle 2015, D120, 00.01.00, 03/02/16

[18] B.01, Integrated Roadmap - DS15 Release Note, D83, 00.01.00, 02/12/15

https://www.atmmasterplan.eu/


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