Airport Performance: Infrastructure vs Technology

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1 Airport Performance: Infrastructure vs Technology Axel Husfeldt / Jann Döbelin Flughafen Zürich

2 Session Schedule The schedule of the sessions could be: > - 10 to 15': introduction and presentation of the issue by the guide > - 15': scientific team 1 propose some answers > - 15': scientific team 2 propose some answers > - 20': questions and answers from the players and from the audience > - 15': wrap up by the guide Standortstudie Tower - Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse - OPF WS

3 Index Zurich Airport AG Consideration of future developments ATC Tower Replacement Standortstudie Tower - Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse - OPF WS

4 Flughafen Zürich AG Operator of Zurich Airport Shareholder structure: Canton of Zurich 33.3%, City of Zurich 5% Around 1,600 employees Revenue in 2014: CHF million Profit in 2014: CHF million Standard presentation

5 Transport hub: Swiss gateway to the world 184 destinations in 70 countries 76 airlines 25.4 million passengers Passenger record: more than 90,000 during the holiday period on a single day 269,000 flight movements 429,800 tonnes of freight Information from Standard presentation

6 The airport today Standard presentation

7 Status Quo Airports like ZRH are operating temporary at the limit of their capacity. Infrastructure, procedures, technology and human resources are the main areas influencing the usage of an existing airport capacity. Therefore you can expect that they optimize their airport operations concerning the existing possibilities and the state of the art technology available. In this case high performance is understood as the flexible and optimum use of the given capacity with the minimum effort to the existing demand providing a safe environment Standortstudie Tower - Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse - OPF WS

8 ATC Tower Replacement - Conventional Trigger: restricted view in regard to airport infrastructural adaptations and condition of building infrastructure (>30 years) Evaluation of new location by working group: Airport (provider), Apron (user) and ATC (user) Requirement analysis based on ICAO/EASA and FAA-Documents Deduction of evaluation criteria: Visibility, Technical infrastructure & systems, Operations, Building Infrastructure, Security Exclusion of Remote-Tower Concept (technology to enhance new ATC Tower possible) Influence on ariport master planning, high invest Complex Project, involvement of huge number of experts, time consuming Realization of new ATC Tower during the next years Standortstudie Tower - Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse - OPF WS

9 ATC Tower Replacement - Conventional Zone Nord Zone A / GSA Zone West Dock A Butzenbüel Zone Süd Standortstudie Tower - Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse - OPF WS

10 ATC Tower Replacement Future Concept Development of Remote Towers ongoing Proof of concept done Small airports & contingency towers equipped Some tenders out First draft of EASA Regulation existing Responsible local experts are not able to evaluate future technology developments, i.e.: What potential does the future technology offer? What are the performance barrieres of the future technology? What are the safety issues regarding the future technology? Experts concentrate on well known concepts to ensure safe and efficient operations Standortstudie Tower - Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse - OPF WS

11 Conclusion Working at capacity limitations using state of the art knowledge with long adopting times due to administrative procedures (i.e. environmental regulations, political significance, safety issues etc.) and high invests makes it difficult for airports to adjust fast to actual customer needs (mostly airlines and passengers). Required is a reliable access to future state of the art developments, knowing that they will come, as soon as possible to use optimized procedures, technology and infrastructure to enable a flexible use of an airport to produce an efficient handling of air traffic to meet all the customer needs Standard presentation

12 Questions How can an airport ensure to put its effort into the right area or combination of areas (conventionale & future or ongoing developments) to ensure that the required capacity is available at any time? How can an airport keep the balance of capacity to provide an efficient service for future demands (change of capacity usually in steps and not continuously)? How can the access to future state-of-the-art developments be enabled? What has to be done from an organisational point of view to force the organisation to follow this path? How can different possibilities be assessed against each other? What would be the advantages of those future concepts? Could the capacity be increased? Could the Safety margin be reduced, i.e. Runway crossings could be operated more safely with less separations? Standard presentation

13 Questions How can the acceptance and willingness to use future developments be increased? When could being a launching customer a good way (or would it be better to wait for references)? How do you keep up to date regarding technology development? How to integrate those concepts into the existing ATM surrounding? What regulations do have to exist? Define a method to ensure that future developments and their availability can be considered in projects Standard presentation

14 Thank you very much! Standard presentation