1. 2014
Amr SABER
Aeronautical Information In the Future Air
Traffic Management System:
European Airport Operators' Perspective
Paris airports- Charles de Gaulle Case study

2. Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport is built on
3,257 hectares. It handles the largest share of
long-haul and intercontinental commercial
connections of the airport system which also
comprises Paris-Orly and Paris-Le Bourget.
This positioning greatly structures the activity
and identity of the airport, which is the
world’s gateway to France. It has three
passenger terminals with a theoretical
capacity of 79.3 million passengers per year
and six cargo terminals. With 62.0 million
passengers in 2013, it is the eighth leading
airport in the world, the second in Europe and
the first in France. Cargo and mail traffic
totalled 2.1 million tonnes in 2013. Services
were provided to 309 cities worldwide from
Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport in 2013.
[Aéroports de Paris website]
Abstract
Within the overall ICAO ATM concept and
its Global Air Navigation Plan, the Roadmap
for the Transition from AIS to AIM has led
the European Commission to implement in
consistency new regulations and guidance's.
Through analysing specifically on
aeronautical information topic the current
situation on the national regulatory,
procedures and local practices Paris-CDG,
strategies development, operational
procedures and new technologies
implementation are proposed to support and
enable this new regulation application by the
airport operator at Paris-CDG.
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3. Table of Contents
Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................V
Table of Figures ........................................................................................................................VII
Table of Tables ........................................................................................................................VIII
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................... 1
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 5
1.1 Background...................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 The Aeronautical Data Chain........................................................................................... 6
1.2.1 Stakeholders ................................................................................................................ 7
2 Aeronautical Information Management (AIM)................................................................... 9
2.1 Background...................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 Why Aeronautical Information Matters.......................................................................... 9
2.3 How Information is Distributed Today..........................................................................10
2.4 The Objective of the Transition to AIM.........................................................................11
2.5 The Definition and Context of AIM ...............................................................................11
2.6 What Will Change..........................................................................................................12
2.6.1 Users ..........................................................................................................................13
2.6.2 Data............................................................................................................................14
2.6.3 Products.....................................................................................................................16
2.6.4 Static versus dynamic information............................................................................17
2.6.5 AIRAC cycle ................................................................................................................17
2.7 Eight Guiding Principles for the Transition to AIM .......................................................18
2.8 Expected Benefits..........................................................................................................19
3 AIS TO AIM ........................................................................................................................21
3.1 European AIM strategy .................................................................................................21
3.1.1 Proposed Directions for Change and Corresponding Strategic Actions....................21
3.2 ICAO Roadmap for the Transition from AIS to AIM ......................................................30
3.2.1 Phase 1 — Consolidation...........................................................................................32
3.2.2 Phase 2 — Going digital.............................................................................................33
3.2.3 Phase 3 — Information management .......................................................................33
3.2.4 The Regional Dimension............................................................................................34
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4. 3.3 Roadmap Steps..............................................................................................................35
3.4 AIS to AIM European Developments.............................................................................36
3.5 Roadmap Timeline ........................................................................................................56
4 AIM in Global Air Navigation Context...............................................................................57
4.1 Aviation System Block Upgrade (ASBU)........................................................................58
4.1.1 Understanding Modules and Threads.......................................................................59
4.1.2 Standards and Recommended Practices Development Plan....................................60
4.1.3 Block Upgrade Technology Roadmaps......................................................................62
4.2 ICAO’s Ten Key Air Navigation Policy Principles [RD 12]...............................................67
4.3 PBN: ICAO Highest Priority............................................................................................69
4.4 From the GANP to Regional Planning ...........................................................................70
4.5 The European ATM Master Plan ...................................................................................70
4.5.1 SESAR Concept Steps.................................................................................................70
4.5.2 Mapping to ICAO Blocks ............................................................................................72
4.5.3 European Single Sky Implementation (ESSIP) ...........................................................76
4.5.3.1 ITY-ADQ......................................................................................................................76
4.5.3.1.1 Objective and Background [RD 16]........................................................................76
4.5.3.1.2 Structure of the ADQ Regulation...........................................................................77
4.5.3.1.3 ADQ and AIS to AIM Roadmap...............................................................................78
5 AIS-AIM in Regulatory Context .........................................................................................79
5.1 ICAO Regulations and Guidelines..................................................................................79
5.2 European Regulation [SES]............................................................................................79
5.2.1 Regulation (EC) No 552/2004 [RD 17] .......................................................................79
5.2.2 Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 [RD 18] .......................................................................80
5.2.3 Implementing Rule 73/2010 (ADQ)...........................................................................80
5.2.4 Implementing Rule ADQ-2.........................................................................................80
5.2.5 Regulation (EU) No 139/2014....................................................................................81
5.3 AIS-AIM in French Regulation .......................................................................................81
6 Analysis of the Current Situation......................................................................................83
6.1 AIS - AIM in France ........................................................................................................83
6.2 Paris-CDG airport...........................................................................................................84
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5. 7 Conclusions & The way Forward: Plan of Actions ............................................................91
Appendix 1: Glossary................................................................................................................93
Appendix 2: References Documents........................................................................................95
Appendix 3: AIM Regulations at a Glance................................................................................97
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6. Table of Figures
Figure 1: Aviation’s Global Impacts, Source: ATAG; ICAO................................................................. 1
Figure 2: Global Air Traffic Growth, Source: Airbus............................................................................. 2
Figure 3: Aeronautical Data Chain, Source: EUROCONTROL............................................................. 6
Figure 4: Example of Aeronautical Data Chain and exchange points, Source: EUROCONTROL........ 6
Figure 5: Aeronautical data chain stakeholders....................................................................................... 8
Figure 6: AIS to AIM to IM Transition................................................................................................. 12
Figure 7: Information Management as a component of the future ATM Operational Concept............ 13
Figure 8: Phases of Flight under the Scope of AIM.............................................................................. 13
Figure 9: The AIM concept in terms of the exchange models .............................................................. 15
Figure 10: Strategy Context .................................................................................................................. 16
Figure 11: AIRAC cycle........................................................................................................................ 18
Figure 12: ICAO Roadmap for the Transition from AIS to AIM ......................................................... 32
Figure 13: Performance-driven approach.............................................................................................. 34
Figure 14: Positioning of the 21 steps of the roadmap in the three phases ........................................... 36
Figure 15: EAD Concept....................................................................................................................... 43
Figure 16: Aeronautical Information Exchange Model......................................................................... 45
Figure 17: Integrated Briefing – Levels of Integration ......................................................................... 47
Figure 18: AMDB is a Geographic Information System (GIS) database of an airport......................... 49
Figure 19: Depicting Block 0–3 availability milestones, Performance Improvement Areas, and
technology/procedure/capability Modules. ........................................................................................... 58
Figure 20: A Module Thread is associated with a specific Performance Improvement Area............... 60
Figure 21: Graphic depicting the ASBU Modules converging over time on their target operational
concepts and performance improvements. ............................................................................................ 62
Figure 22: Information Management Technology Roadmap 7 ............................................................. 65
Figure 23: Information Management Technology Roadmap 8 ............................................................. 67
Figure 24: Path to the Target Operational Concept............................................................................... 71
Figure 25: SESAR Essential Operational Changes and ICAO’s ASBU............................................... 72
Figure 26: SESAR Mapping to ICAO Blocks; Performance Improvement Area 2: Globally
Interoperable Systems and Data............................................................................................................ 74
Figure 27: 3 Levels of the European ATM Master Plan ....................................................................... 76
Figure 28: Structure of Regulation (EU) No 73/2010........................................................................... 77
Figure 29: Contribution of ADQ to AIS to AIM................................................................................... 78
Table of Tables
Table 1: ICAO Roadmap Timetable ..................................................................................................... 56
Table 2: Schematic Diagram of Block Upgrades: Performance Improvement Area 2 ......................... 61
Table 3: EUR ASBU Implementation Plan. Block 0 Modules ............................................................. 75
Table 4: AIS AIM Transition gap analysis for France.......................................................................... 83
Table 5: Plan of actions......................................................................................................................... 92
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7. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Addressing Growth and Realizing the Promise of Twenty-first Century ATM
Introduction
Air transport today plays a major role in driving sustainable economic and social
development. It directly and indirectly supports the employment of 56.6 million people,
contributes over $2.2 trillion to global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and carries over 2.9
billion passengers and $5.3 trillion worth of cargo annually.
Aviation achieves its impressive level of macroeconomic performance by serving
communities and regions through clear cycles of investment and opportunity. Infrastructure
development generates initial employment and the ensuing airport and airline operations
generate new supplier networks, tourism influxes and access for local producers to distant
markets. These burgeoning trade and tourism economies then continue to expand, fostering
wider and more sustainable regional growth1
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It’s no mystery then why air traffic growth has so consistently defied recessionary cycles
since the mid-1970s, expanding two-fold once every 15 years. It resisted these recessions
precisely because it served as one of our most effective tools for ending them an important
consideration for governments at every level in a challenging economic environment.
But even as air transport’s speed and efficiency significantly facilitate economic progress, its
growth under certain circumstances can be a double-edged sword. Though a sure sign of
increased living standards, social mobility and generalized prosperity on the one hand,
unmanaged air traffic growth can also lead to increased safety risks in those circumstances
when it outpaces the regulatory and infrastructure developments needed to support it.
Figure 1: Aviation’s Global Impacts, Source: ATAG; ICAO
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$2.2 trillion
Contributed to global GDP annually
2.9 billion
Passengers annually
$5.3 trillion
Cargo by value annually
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8. The pace and resilience of modern air traffic growth
Global air traffic has doubled in size one every15 years since 1977 and will continue to do so.
This growth occurs despite broader recessionary cycles and helps illustrate how aviation
investment can be a key factor supporting economic recovery.
Figure 2: Global Air Traffic Growth, Source: Airbus
Since traditional methods of increasing capacity are near exhaustion, new and improved
methods and concepts are needed to maximise the exploitation of existing capacity and to add
capacity wherever possible. In order to release the latent capacity in the Air Traffic
Management (ATM) system and to create new capacity, ATM is required to evolve and
implement the means to provide the necessary capacity in a safe, timely, efficient and cost-
effective way.
ATM will depend extensively on the provision of timely, relevant, accurate, and quality
assured information that allows the ATM Community to make informed decisions. These
decisions will need to be taken on the basis of Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) rather
than in isolation. When shared on a system wide basis and using advances in the
corresponding technologies, information will allow the ATM Community members to
conduct their business and operations in an efficient and cost effective way.
The traditional product centric provision of Aeronautical Information has to be replaced by a
data centric and systems oriented solution, one in which timely and reliable data is made
available permanently and dynamically for use in applications that perform the required tasks,
be it flight planning, flight management, navigation, separation assurance, CDM or any other
strategic or tactical ATM activity. One key enabler of the ATM system is interoperability. It
is essential that the new definition of aeronautical data is provided in a common, system and
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9. platform independent format (or a set of harmonised formats) within a virtual information
management system.
The objective is to ensure consistency, authenticity and appropriate coverage of the data, and
to provide accessibility to the data by all users of the ATM network, both on the ground and
in the air. The enlarged scope of Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) includes all
categories of information required to support the new ATM system.
Purpose and Scope of this Document
The aim of this document is to identify the airport as a stakeholder required steps and provide
a planning for the transition from Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) to Aeronautical
Information Management (AIM) in France.
A key driver for the transition from AIS to AIM is the need to achieve an uninterrupted
aeronautical data chain with no loss or corruption in information, in a pre-defined format and
with guaranteed accuracy and integrity. The aeronautical data chain is defined as ‘a series of
interrelated links wherein each link provides a function that facilitates the origination,
transmission and use of aeronautical data for a specific purpose’.
The ICAO roadmap provides the strategic direction and major principles for the transition to
AIM. The Implementing Rule EU 73/2010 (ADQ) establishes the framework for a full digital
aeronautical information data supply chain and is a major driver for enabling a modern and
harmonised aeronautical information service, capable of providing quality-assured
information for all phases of flight. ADQ addresses the ‘upstream’ data supply chain from
origination to publication by a State.
Although a lot of the work to achieve the AIS to AIM transition is well under way, there are
still some large hurdles to be taken, especially for the data originators / providers
stakeholders.
Document Structure & Layout
This document comprises the following sections and Annexes:
Section 1 Introduction – presents an overview of the aeronautical information services,
background, the aeronautical data chain and the stakeholders.
Section 2 Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) – presents the overall context for
AIM, the objective of the transition, the changes in the domain and the expected benefits.
Section 3 AIS TO AIM – presents the ICAO roadmap for transition to AIM and the European
strategy and developments within the ICAO roadmaps steps context.
Section 4 AIM in Global Air Navigation Context – presents the AIM in the context of global
air navigation plan, mapping with development in Europe within the European ATM master
plan and SESAR initiatives.
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10. Section 5 AIS-AIM in Regulatory Context – presents ICAO, European and the national
regulations and guidelines regarding to aeronautical information.
Section 6 Analysis of the Current Situation – presents the overview of the current situation
in France according to the ICAO roadmaps steps and analysis of current system in Paris-CDG
airport with the requirements included in ESSIP Plan "ITY-ADQ" and Regulation (EU) No
139/2014.
Section 7 Conclusions and the way ahead – presents the conclusions and required actions.
Appendix 1 Glossary – presents a reference to all the terms used in this document.
Appendix 2 References documents – presents all the references used for this document.
Appendix 3 AIM Regulations at a Glance – presents the most of regulations covering the
aeronautical information activities.
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