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	+ Home Search Aviation Systems		01.03.08 Division Highlights Contents Traffic Management Advisor Research Transition Team Kickoff Meeting Surface Operations Data Analysis and Adaptation Tool Traffic Management Advisor Research Transition Team Kickoff Meeting: A meeting was held in December to develop a new process to transition NextGen technologies from NASA to the FAA for implementation. Four teams were identified in the following areas: 1) Surface, 2) Traffic Management Advisor (TMA), 3) Multi-Sector Planner and 4) Dynamic Airspace Configuration. Although the structure and purpose of the entire team process was discussed, the focus was on TMA, which will serve as a trailblazer for the other teams. A key outcome was the selection of 3D-Path Arrival Management (3D-PAM) as the initial technology to be transferred under the TMA team. 3D-PAM provides efficient arrival solutions in congested airspace by coupling NASA’s ground-based automation for conflict-free, time-based metering with airborne Required Navigation Performance functions. 3D-PAM will not be considered in isolation, however. The TMA baseline that supports 3D-PAM will consider multi-level-scheduling capabilities for which the FAA has previously identified requirements. Furthermore, 3D-PAM will be viewed as a stepping-stone for enabling continuous descent to the runway using datalink for clearance delivery. As a next step, the NASA and FAA co-leads for TMA (Rich Coppenbarger and John McCarron) will organize and lead a workshop to plan, prioritize and schedule collaborative work elements. Key technical staff and managers from both agencies will be invited to attend this workshop, tentatively scheduled for February 5-6 in Washington, D.C. + Back to Top Surface Operations Data Analysis and Adaptation Tool: In December, Mosaic ATM, Inc. presented the final Phase 2 briefing of the Surface Operations Data Analysis and Adaptation (SODAA) tool. SODAA ingests surface and terminal surveillance data, air carrier status and intent information plus predictions and events on the airport surface. SODAA computes a wide array of derived elements during the import process filling a sophisticated relational database with more than 300 raw and derived data elements. SODAA provides the researcher with a powerful query manager and several options for visualizing query results: map display plots; scatter, bar or histogram graphs; a dynamic drill-down tabular display or export for further analysis by external tools. This final Phase 2 briefing focused on the use of SODAA for analysis and research purposes. Mosaic ATM also demonstrated the new thin client feature, which enables the use of a standard web browser to access some of the most-often-used features of SODAA. An SBIR Phase 3 contract for continued SODAA development was awarded on December 13, 2007. + Back to Top
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