TBA3D
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TBA3D
                                                               ——Test Bed for A-SMGCS 3D

Test Bed for A-SMGCS 3D

Test Bed for A-SMGCS (Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System), TBA3D, is an airport control tower simulator which provides a test bed facility for the real time simulation and analysis of airport operations. It provides a platform to experiment with new airport layouts and procedures to ensure that they are both safe and efficient and to evaluate the effects of changes,emergencies and adverse conditions on airport capacity and operations.

It is specifically designed to ensure maximum flexibility for those users that require extensive simulation functionalities and provides an integrated but modular environment which is easily adaptable to any aeronautical environment in the world. TBA3D’s air traffic controller and pseudo pilot stations can be further integrated with multiple instances of IDS’s Advanced Aircraft Cockpit Simulator (AACS) and procedure design tools via ARINC 424 (FPDAM) to model air traffic scenarios and to configure exercises.

TBA3D Applications

New airport design - assessment and technical/operationalspecifications of:
• airport lay out
• aircraft procedures air side, land side and ground side
• facilities
• airport capacity

Optimization and expansion of an existing airport:
• analysis of the overall performance of the airport
• analysis of the factors and processes influencing the airport’s capacity
• definition of a new capacity target
• adaptation of the infrastructure and the facilities for the new target

Real time airport capacity assessment:
• critical situations
• unusual circumstances
• emergencies

Features and Characteristics

TBA3D is an open multipurpose platform providing:
• An ability to simulate many different airports
• An airport layout design/modification capability
• Traffic generation (pseudo pilots and ground vehicles)and handling services
• CWP/PWP (Controller/Pilot Working Position) design/modification (e.g. electronic flight strips
• Full recording/logging/playback capabilities
• Flexible design for 3D scenarios
• Capability to import MET report data

It is composed of:
• Cylindrical 270° OTW (Out The Window display)
• 3 ATC (Air Traffic Controller) equipped consoles
• 1 Supervisor console
• SOC (System Operating Console) + 4 additional PWP/DWP (ground vehicle Driver) consoles in a separate room

TBA3D can be interfaced with:
• Multiple instances of IDS’s Advanced Aircraft Cockpit Simulator (AACS)
• Procedure design tools via ARINC 424
• ASTERIX compatible systems
• DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation) compatible systems

Benefits

As TBA3D is designed to be used for experimentation and not for training it does not require certification. This means that TBA3D can be very flexible and allows the layout and information available to each seat to be configured for different exercises and scenarios.

TBA3D can be used with new and existing airports to:
• Ensure that the airport’s designs and procedures are safe
• Enable efficient air traffic management operations in the airspace and on the ground
• Identify the best procedures and environment to maximize capacity

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