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Light Weight Applications for Interagency Collaborative Decision Support.
ZFW ARTCC traffic mangers and Center Weather Service Unit forecasters
develop aircraft flow strategy to deal with summer convective storms.
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About the Project:
The Purpose of the TMU project is to address the requirements that were found
in the in depth study performed by FAA Air Traffic System Requirements (ARS-100)
on "Decision-Based Weather Needs for the Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC)
Traffic Management Unit". In response to these needs, FSL is working closely with the
Dallas/Fort Worth (ZFW) Traffic Management Unit (TMU) and the Center Weather Service
Unit (CWSU) on:
- Integrating all or a limited suite of operational
products of convection, icing, turbulence, and ceiling/visibility with
emerging research products into a single graphic of convection, icing,
turbulence, and ceiling/visibility for presentation to TMU decision-makers
in easily understood formats that provide a more accurate and consistent
forecast of impacts to the enroute, TRACON, and terminal air space.
- Developing network enabled agile decision support tools
for the NextGeneration Air Transportation System (NEXTGen) that allow for interagency
collaboration (shared situational awareness).
- Allowing for the integration of all relevant data sets, available on
distributed servers over the internet from collaborating
agencies, to improve the traffic management decision support process.
- Providing a common weather picture for the enroute, TRACON, and terminal areas.
The TMU demonstration and evaluation helps expedite fielding of the advanced research
products and the amalgam graphics for convection, icing, turbulence, and ceiling/visibility by:
- Getting feed back from end-users (NWS/FAA) early in the development process.
- Allowing operational users to play a role in the requirements, development, and evaluation process.
To meet the goals of the project the following systems/applications were used:
TMU prototype systems
Collaborators:
Forecasters at the Fort Worth CWSU work with
ZFW traffic managers and developers at GSD to help refine decision support tools, weather integration and displays, and graphical
presentations of decision support graphics for the traffic manager use.
Traffic Managers at the ZFW ARTCC work with CWSU
forecasters at refining and evaluating the decision support tools, weather displays, and graphical presentations
to help tailor them for their use.
Sponsored By:
Participating Agencies:
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