From history: Air traffic is born on the ground
In the mid-1990s, it was decided to
explore the possibility of using the CNS&ATM (Communication, Navigation
and Surveillance & Air Traffic Management) concept in Russia. As part of
this task, FAU GosNIIAS, as an advanced aviation industry institute,
took part in developing methods and tools for modelling air traffic
management and organisation processes, as it has competencies and
capabilities to simulate objects and their operating environments, as
well as processes of interaction between the object and the environment.
With the support of individual RFBR grants
and R&D of the Ministry of Science and Technology in the late 1990s,
proactive work was started on the development of a multitasking software
research simulator designed for scenario generation and subsequent
evaluation of airspace use under various conditions. By 2004, the
Institute specialists had created the first version of the software
simulation complex for air traffic management simulation (ATC CMM).
In 2006, the Federal State Unitary
Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation of the Russian
Federation" (FSUE State ATM Corporation) ordered the Institute to work
on the creation of a similar research complex with much wider
capabilities. And since 2007, a hardware-software complex for simulation
modeling of the air traffic management system (ATMS) with the developed
software has been deployed and put into operation in the State
Corporation, and a modeling group has been created within the Airspace
Management Department.
In recent years, based on the complex
staff of the Institute in conjunction with employees of the State
Corporation has conducted a number of studies to support the improvement
of the domestic structure of the airspace:
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a study of the route structure of
individual district centres (St Petersburg, Rostov, Samara, etc.);
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analysis of proposals to modernise the
Moscow area of the EU ATM, in support of the transition of the
Russian Federation and other CIS countries to a Reduced Tarmac
Standard (RVSM);
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study of air traffic flows in
Khabarovsk RC;
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analysis of airspace usage features
during the transition period to reduced maintenance standards in the
Russian Federation and neighbouring countries.
As a result of the work performed by the
GosNIIAS team, it is now possible to assess the efficiency of airspace
use and to investigate processes and procedures for aircraft flight
organisation and management. The ATM CMM, as a research tool, is in
great demand for solving air navigation problems, and its capabilities
are similar to such well-known tools as foreign complexes of TAAM,
AirTop, SAAM + NEVAC and FACET. There is no other domestic research tool
based on mathematical and simulation modelling at this level in Russia.
To date, specialists of GosNIIAS are
working on the application of simulation modelling to investigate highly
relevant problems for the Russian air traffic management and control
system.
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