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How Quadrant ADS-B/MLAT supports the growth of regional airports

Speaker:Scott Hauswald

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Introduction Multilateration and Wide Area Multilateration▮ Independent Cooperative Technology (Secondary Surveillance technology)

▮ Commonly the systems deployed usually cover two technologies

▮ Independent Cooperative – MSSR, MLAT and WAM

▮ Dependent Cooperative – ADS-B

▮ Can be deployed to support a wide variety of use cases (MLAT).

▮ EUROCAE ED-117 – In support of Surface Movement Ground Control Systems

▮ EUROCAE ED-142 – Wide Area Multilateration Systems. TMA (3 NM Separation) and ENR (5 NM Separation.)

▮ Specialty Deployments:

▮ Situational Awareness Systems,

▮ PRM - Parallel Runway Monitoring,

▮ SRA - Surveillance Radar Approach,

▮ PAR - Precision Approach Radar,

▮ HMU - Height Monitoring Units.

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Regional Based Airports are Growing.▮ Regional Based Multilateration Systems provides enhanced Safety Awareness and offer a

cost advantage deployment when compared to a single deployment.

▮ Several Airports co-funding and sharing a single Multilateration System.

▮ Can provide each Airport surveillance coverage to threshold and possibility tracking on runways.

▮ Provides each airport with surrounding coverage, >60NM

▮ Depends on distance between co-operating airports.

▮ Reduces/Shares overall implementation cost.

▮ More Value for your Investment.

Airports serving less than 1 million passengers a year has grown by 81% since between 2001 and 2010. Source ACI Europe

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Cost breakdown

▮ “Brownfield” versus “Greenfield” sites

▮ Site Rental costs (do we need to pay a third party for site

rental fees)

▮ With a regional approach this should be reduced or removed

since we are using Airport property/land for the equipment.

▮ Communication costs/Infrastructure cost; leased

communication services or dedicated communication

deployments

▮ ICAO in September 2007 published “Guidance Material on Surveillance Technology

Comparison).▮ There is always an ongoing discussion between what is more cost effective, a Multilateration deployment or a

SSR/MSSR (Rotating Radar.)

▮ This is very site dependent and should be part of a ANSP’s or Airport Operators decision process to determine

what technology would suit their business needs (Life Cycle Cost Analysis.)

ADS-B

SSR

MLAT/WAM

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Basic Cost breakdown showing a sharing of the cost

MultilatSystem(9sites) RadarNumberofSites 9 1EquipmentCost 1,050,000$ 6,000,000$TowerandAntennaMounting1 360,000$ includedPowerSupplyandBackup(ifrequired) 180,000$ includedTelecommunicationsEstablishment 90,000$ 10,000$InstallationActivity 90,000$ 20,000$

1,770,000$ 6,030,000$

MaintenanceCost2(10yrs) 50,000$ 250,000$Telecommunicationsongoing(2sites-10yrs-15K/pa) 30,000$ -$SiteRental(2Sites,25k/pa/site) 500,000$ -$

10yearsofMaintenanceCost 580,000$ 250,000$Total 2,350,000$ 6,280,000$

1. National Aerospace Laboratory NLR report prepared for Eurocontrol : NLR-CR-2004-472 “Wide AreaMultilateration Report on EATMP TRS 131/04 Version 1.1 August 2005 available athttp://www.eurocontrol.int/surveillance/gallery/content/public/documents/WAM_study_report_1_1.pdf2. Department of Science and Technology Linkopin University, Pricing of Radar Data, Martin Linder and Tobias Nylin; 2013-Decebmer 18. (Maintenance Cost for MSSR Radar.)

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Single System Coverage

7.5m RMS @ 15FT AGL

150m RMS @ 1000FT MSL

150m RMS @ 5000FT MSL

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Example of deployment (Northern UK, the highlands)

▮ Trax International in cooperation with HIAL identified that Dundee Airport would be looking for

a Cost Effective Surveillance System to improve situational awareness.

▮ Comsoft Solutions recognized this as an area that could benefit from a Regional Based System.

▮ Six Key Airports Selected.

▮ Dundee Airport

▮ Campbell Town Airport

▮ Islay Airport

▮ Tiree Airport

▮ Benebucla Airport

▮ Inverness Airport

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Basic Cost breakdown showing a sharing of the cost

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Coverage through Regional Sharing

Approach Coverage at all 6 Airports similar to Dundee

150m RMS @ 10,000FT MSL 150m RMS @ 20,000FT MSL

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How WAM can support future technologies

Enhanced vision

Automation toolsSafety Nets

Vision augmentation