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	+ Home Search Aviation Systems		Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) Highlights - Fiscal Year 2013 In Fiscal Year 2013, the Aviation Systems Division worked with international partners in nearly all the research areas of the division. In September 2012, NASA Ames Research Center's Senior Scientist for Air Transportation Systems, Dr. Banavar Sridhar, attended the 2012 meeting of the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) in Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Sridhar presented his paper entitled “Uncertainty Quantification in the Development of Aviation Operations to Reduce Aviation Emissions and Contrails” and also chaired a session on air traffic management together with Mr. Greg McDonald of Airservices Australia. During the Congress, Dr. Sridhar held discussions exploring possible collaboration with Airservices Australia and also met with Dr. Dirk Kugler and Dr. Volker Gollnick, directors of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Braunschweig and Hamburg, respectively to focus on the recently completed formal agreements between NASA/DLR to collaborate on Air Traffic Management research. Aviation Systems Division researchers also participated in two international workshops to kick-off collaboration agreements between NASA and the German Aerospace Center (Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) and the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands (Nationaal Lucht en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium, NLR), in December 2012. The first workshop, hosted by DLR's Institute of Flight Guidance in Braunschweig, Germany, included participants from DLR research centers in Braunschweig, Hamburg, Cologne, and Oberpfaffenhofen. The teams discussed their respective expertise in air traffic management and aviation environmental research, methodologies for selecting and sharing suitable data, and simulation tools for global air traffic, climate impact, trajectory optimization, and relevant surface traffic management technologies. The NASA team attended the second workshop at NLR to explore a promising collaboration in surface conflict detection that complements current NASA research efforts in the airport surface domain. The joint NASA-NLR effort will focus on testing NLR's taxiway movement conflict detection technology, with the potential to later integrate this techology with NASA's surface movement optimization algorithm. In August 2013, Aviation Systems Division researchers, along with managers from the Ames Aeronautics directorate, and Airspace Systems Program and Project staff hosted members of the Distributed and Revolutionarily Efficient Air-traffic Management System (DREAMS) project from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The JAXA team described their research in wake vortex prediction and disaster recovery and relief efforts, while the NASA team shared their work in wake vortex research and environmental modeling. The project teams provided information about the overall research and development efforts and technical challenges within the Concepts and Technology Development (CTD) and System Analysis, Integration and Evaluation (SAIE) projects. Both organizations agreed to continue discussions to investigate specific areas of collaboration. Eurocontrol visitors met with Aviation Systems Division researchers in September 2013 and learned about the Air Traffic Management Technology Demonstration - 1 (ATD-1), Dynamic Weather Routes, Airport Surface Research, Precision Departure Release Capability, and Single Pilot Operations. The Eurcontrol personnel also provided overviews of their research and development emphases. Discussions were held on sharing of data and investigating future areas for collaboration. Mr. Florian Linke, Team leader, Air Traffic Infrastructures and Processes at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Air Transportation Systems, Hamburg, visited Ames Research Center from July-October as part of the NASA-DLR Air Traffic Management collaboration. Mr. Linke investigated aircraft performance modeling on North Atlantic air traffic trajectory optimization and climate impact. This research supports the “route optimization under all conditions” collaboration topic and provides the basis for further collaborative research work between NASA and DLR on the simulation and optimization of U.S. and European air traffic and its environmental impact. The Aviation Systems Division also hosted a first of its kind, ATM human factors workshop in April 2013. About 30 Ames human factors researchers, primarily from the Human Systems Integration Division (Code TH) and the Aviation Systems Division (AF), who have performed air traffic control and flight-deck human factors evaluations, participated in the workshop. The goal of the workshop was to share ATM best practices and lessons learned gained from past experience with ATM human factors evaluations. The workshop facilitated a healthy exchange of techniques and practices that will help in conducting human performance research moving forward. Feedback from the participants was generally very positive in terms of the content and format of the discussion, and there was great interest in a follow-on meeting that may include a broader range of participants. Also in April, a technical workshop on integrated air and space traffic management was held at Ames. Over 25 participants attended from the FAA (personnel representing NextGen, Commercial Space Transportation, Command Center, and Technical Center), academia (Stanford University, Florida Tech, and Cal Poly), the Air Force Research Lab, and NASA Ames Research Center. The briefings covered various aspects of air and space traffic integration: NextGen goals, current operational practices and constraints, and analyses of future operational concepts and technologies. Workshop participants agreed that NextGen operations should provide equitable sharing of airspace resources by issuing air traffic restrictions strategically based on the nominal spacecraft trajectory and then imposing additional tactical restrictions only as required in the event of an actual spacecraft malfunction. Participants from NASA, FAA, and Stanford agreed to coordinate their work going forward and share relevant tools and data. The Aviation Systems Division also discussed collaborations with other potential external partners, including Delta Airlines, Passur Aerospace, Virgin America, Airbus, Thales, US Airways, the Tech Pilots Forum, Aviation Communication and Surveillance Systems (ACSS).
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