delair Air Traffic Systems - The Advanced Collaborative Decision Making Product Suite for Airports

delair Air Traffic Systems has 20 years’ experience of developing innovative air traffic management systems. delair‘s engineers have realised the advanced collaborative decision making product suite, which consists of focus, an electronic flight strip system, darts4D, an arrival and departure manager, sally, a resource manager and arosa, an analysis tool.

The main benefit of delair's products and services is that they allow for a considerable cost reduction and environmental savings at an airport. The products are tailored to the specific requirements of the users. Only this approach guarantees an intuitive use of the products and strong approval from customers.

Advanced Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM)

With the Advanced Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) product suite, delair offers the first proven product suite in the world with the capability to plan and optimise the entire airside process at an airport. This optimisation process starts with arrivals when they are still at cruise levels, coordinates the ground activities and ends with the handover of the departure from the tower to the departure sector.

The A-CDM philosophy enables the user to start with only one application and extend it with further functionality based on other modules at any given time. It is possible to add or modify interfaces without influencing the applications, and to add new modules without the necessity to duplicate interfacing to other systems. This protects the investments of customers and reduces costs and risks.

A-CDM has been in operation at Zurich Airport since 2003. The suite comprises the A-CDM platform - the common data and communication base of all applications - and sophisticated decision support tools like darts4D, sally (gates, stands, check-in counters, etc.), arosa and focus.

focus - electronic flight strip system

The operationally tested electronic flight strip system focus not only replaces paper strips but also adapts content and layout according to the requirements of each individual working position. This approved procedure guarantees that only information which is important for the respective working position is indicated.

focus covers all the essentials to assist each controller in the optimal way. This facilitates the co-ordination between the controller working positions and the ability to distribute data between the different organisations like airport operators, airlines, ATC and handling agents. focus has been operational since 2003.

In 2009, the intuitive focus Tower HMI, developed cooperatively by delair, DFS and the Technical University Darmstadt, was honoured with the prestigious iF design award.

darts4D - arrival, departure and surface manager

In cooperation with the DFS (the German air navigation service provider), delair has developed the world's first proven, operational arrival and departure manager. Its components are in operational use at Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich airports, and have provided capacity improvements, delay and cost reduction, better organisation of operations, and reduction of environmental impact. darts4D presents the optimum solution to improve operations for all airport stakeholders.

The surface manager closes the planning gap between arrival and departure management. It also provides a monitoring and alerting function which supports the operators in safe traffic operations.

arosa – airport performance and monitoring system

arosa is a generic system designed to manage and analyse the airport capacity. The complete turn-around process, including arrival and departure, is taken into consideration holistically in order to guarantee an optimal use of the total capacity. Based on defined milestones, a target-performance comparison is carried through continually for each phase of the process, and traffic forecasts can be calculated.