Overview
Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT) Project Completed!
The AATT Project was completed on September 30, 2004, after nine years of highly successful research, development, and technology transfer to the FAA and the airline industry. The major focus of the AATT Project was to improve the capacity of transport aircraft operations at and between major airports in the National Airspace System (NAS) by developing decision support tools and concepts to help air traffic controllers, airline dispatchers, and pilots improve the air traffic management and control process from gate-to-gate. AATT addressed some of the most difficult air traffic management issues, including operations in complex airspace and the implementation of distributed air/ground responsibilities for separation.
Technologies developed in the Project include terminal/transition/en route airspace tools for arrival, surface, and departure operations; and flight deck and ground-based tools to support free flight concepts. These technologies have been delivered to the FAA as part of the NAS modernization. One technology, Traffic Management Advisor, is currently deployed in eight Air Route Traffic Control Centers, with scheduled deployments planned for four additional Centers. Other AATT technologies such as Collaborative Arrival Planner have been transferred to airlines for use in airport ramp towers and airline operations centers. At least five AATT technologies have received NASA Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Awards since 2000:
Specific AATT technologies will be transferred to the FAA such as Surface Management System Build 1, which will be handed off to the FAA's Terminal Business Unit. Capabilities from other technologies will be utilized by the FAA in systems upgrades. For example, the Reroute Conformance Monitor in SWEPT (System-Wide Evaluation Planning Tool) will be part of the FAA's Enhanced Traffic Management System, Version 7.9, which is schedule for upgrade in October 2004. AATT research will be leveraged by other Airspace Systems Program projects including:
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