VOLANS INDUSTRY DAY

VOLANS Roadmap, Shaping the Future of Air Space Visualization, Analysis and Outreach

Mark Karmelich

VP Information Technology

BridgeNet InternationalA Tetra Tech Company

October 4, 2018

Why Are We Here

• Celebrate VOLANS

• VOLANS – How we got here

• Customer Presentations

• VOLANS Future

• VOLANS Community

• Our VOLANS Commitment

• Discuss future of the industry, how VOLANS can adapt

Celebrate

• VOLANS is now used worldwide

• United States (FAA, International

and Regional Airports)

• Canada (NavCanada)

• England (Heathrow, Gatwick)

• Australia (Air Services Australia)

• France (DGAC)

• Latvia (LGS Latvian ANSP)

Celebrate some more

• Tetra Tech Acquisition of BridgeNet in 2018

• Resources to pursue new business

• Maintaining product focus and customer service

• Offices around the world

• Grow responsibility

• Tetra Tech FIT Group expertise in Air Space Planning and PBN

• Tetra Tech committed to VOLANS success

VOLANS Product Suite

• VOLANS Desktop Application• Analyze, Visualize, Animate in 3D

• Create Videos and Graphics

• Environmental Studies

• VOLANS Web Tools for Public• Live Flight Tracks in 3D

• Publish Procedures, Tracks, Contours to Web

• Data Analytics, Dashboard Reporting

VOLANS Uses

• 3D Graphic Display

• Visualize and Animate

• Analyze

• Communicate

• Graphics Production

VOLANS Views

•Simultaneous Multiple Views• Birds Eye

• Follow flight

• Pilot

• Over Ground

• Controller

• Cockpit Display

• CDTI

Pilot

CDTI Controller

Follow

Cockpit

VOLANS Features

•Visualization Features• Navigation Aids

• Conventional• NextGen

• 3D Airspace• Noise footprint/contours• Weather Radar• Emissions• CDA• Sustainability• Land Use

CDA

Noise

Footprint

PBN/GNSS

3D Airspace

VOLANS Analysis Features

• Operational Analysis• Flight Efficiency• Fuel Consumption

• Environmental Analysis• Noise (Moving footprint, INM/AEDT)• Emissions• CO2• Population

• Flight Comparison• Finding optimum procedure• Perfect Flight (3DI Score)

Flight Comparison

Perfect Flight Comparison

Noise Prediction

PopulationApproach Vertical Efficiency

Vertical Efficiency

Horizontal Efficiency

Emissions

Census Impact

• From census data and flight track data, calculate impacts on houses and people for operational data and proposed procedures

Integrated Websites

• VOLANS as a publishing tool

• Live Flight Tracks

• Operations Reportingand Data Analytics

• Procedures

• Noise Contours

• Animations

Dashboard Reporting

• Integrated withVOLANS

• ImpactfulReporting forPublic or InternalUse

• Data Analyticsand ad-hocscenarios

Why did we create VOLANS?

• We wanted images that could tell a story, sell an idea

• We wanted software that visualized air traffic, air space planning, and environmental needs

Why did we create VOLANS? (continued)

• We saw a need in the industry

• 3D Animation and Graphics

• Create a simple message from complex data

• Air traffic and environmental analysis

• Determine environmental Impact of procedures before implemented

• High quality video content

• Streamline environmental analysis, including w/AEDT

• Putting this power in the customers’ hands

VOLANS and Environmental Impact

• Visually communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience

• Simplify and streamline the use of AEDT

• Plan for airport changes such as new runways or runway closures

• Give customers the power todo “what if” environmentalscenarios

VOLANS and PBN

• Manage the local impact of PBN procedures

• Communicate a true picture of how aircraft are actually flown along PBN procedures

• Streamline the FAA PBN Implementation Process (JO 7100.41A)

• Support the PBN Outreach Process

• Promote NextGenTechnology

VOLANS Upcoming Features

• Procedure Design Process• Closer integration with Targets and FPDAM

• Enhanced visual procedure drawing and editing

• Maintain international waypoint/procedure data

• Enhancement to CDA (aka OPD)• How does each airline or aircraft type compare?

• Comparison by STAR or Runway

• More AEDT Streamlining, including nominal path creation

VOLANS Future with FAA SWIM data

• Further Integration with SWIM data• Nationwide SWIM data repository

• Commit Server Resources

• Server-side Data cleanup

• Allow any US customer one-click access to SWIM data

• SWIM Feed for Noise and Air Quality Monitoring, fusing different data

• Incorporate SID/STAR data from SWIM TFMS and FDPS feeds

• Incorporate surface data from SWIM SMES feed

VOLANS User Community

• Upcoming Features for VOLANS User Community• Ticket system for issues and

feature requests, integrated within VOLANS software

• Online user groups

• Share VOLANS cases between customers

• Online VOLANS Video repository

• Webinars

• YouTube

• Social Media

Achieving VOLANS Goals

• Resource commitment• Growing staff for product development and support

• Expansion of Data Center computational power, disk, and bandwidth

• Enhance our repository of data from around the world• Flight Tracks

• Procedures

• Noise Data

• Weather Data

• Aircraft and Engine Types

• Airports and Runways

• Obstacles

• AEDT Data

Achieving VOLANS Goals (continued)

• Management Strategy• Stay customer-focused,

visit or web-con often

• Elicit and Incorporate customer ideas

• Stay proactive, anticipate customer needs

• Plan for growth, manage it wisely

• Licensing and Consulting model

• Fund product support and product development

VOLANS Industry Day

Mark Karmelich

VP Information Technology

BridgeNet International

A Tetra Tech Company

310-420-6549

MarkK@AirportNetwork.com