Air Traffic Control System

Project Requirements Document

Muntean Paul Ioan

Project Requirements Document

1. Application Overview
The scope of this project is to design an ATC (Air Traffic Control System) wich is a very highly complex pieces of machinery, they employ standard verification and modeling technique to coordinate, distribute and track aircraft as well as weatherinformation.

1.1 Objectives
The objectives is to design a system for air traffic control wich will help to land an aircraft on a airport.

1.2 Business Process

This application is intended to help all companies wich want to control air traffic in an airport.

1.3 User Roles and Responsibilities

Users will be all employes of air traffic control center wich want to control the air traffic.

1.4 Interactions with Other Systems

If my application is used it can interact with other systems like systems for monitoring and other decision making systems.

1.5 Replacement of Legacy Systems

My application will improve all existing used application because it uses new features wich improve all control in an ATC.

1.6 Production Rollout Considerations

The application is intended that it will be released after it is complaining all requirements an after testing .

1.7 Terminology
The bussines termes will be added as the project evolves and after seeing what is necessary.

2 .Functional Requirements
2.1 Statement of Functionality
Organize and regulate the process of landing aircraft at an airport. The primary objective of the ATCS is to provide separation services for aircraft that are flying in controlledairspace or where poor visibility prevents from maintaining visual separation.

2.2 Security
Regarding the security we can say that the application is intended to be used by qualified personnel which can understand all features provided by the application.

2.3 Auditing
This will be added in the future

2.3Administration/Customization of the Application

The user sholud understand all terms used all graphical interpretations of the Interface.

2.4 Reporting
All reports are intended to be send to the supervisor in charge and he will take all further decisions in solving all problems. 2.5 Scope The project will be composed of many phases and I intend to cover the following features : Air traffic control system: Which organises and regulates the process of landing aircraft at an airport. The system has a holding pattern, where aircraft 1st appear when they intend to land. From the holding pattern, aircraft can be instructed to move to the final approach corridor, where they will then land. A number of instructions can be issued to aircraft: promote from holding pattern to final approach demote from final approach to holding pattern emergency promote to front of final approach abort landing, return to back to holding pattern redirect to other airport

An Aircraft: For the purpose of traffic control, an aircraft can be considered to require only a flight number (QF123) and a fuel amount. Other attributes may be added as you see fit. The holding pattern: Is an area where the aircraft waiting to land can circle until there number is called for final approach. There is no specific rule for where an aircraft may join the holding pattern, however under normal circumstances they may only be promoted to final approach at a particular position. In emergency situation: It should be possible to specify which plane to take out of the holding pattern. Eg: if a plane is low on fuel, it should be possible to promote it to the final approach. The final approach corridor: A simple queue where under normal conditions, aircraft enter at the tail and are taken off the head for landing on the runaway. However, under emergency circumstances, an aircraft may be added to the head of the final approach corridor for immediate landing. Aircraft landing: when an aircraft reaches the end of the final approach corridor, it can be assumed that it will attempt a landing on the runaway. Fuel, weather, emergency, and disasters: Under normal circumstanced, each aircraft will use one unit of fuel per time tick. However, changing weather conditions may influence fuel consumption and allowable behaviour.

2.6 Performance
This section will contain all the performance of the application and I will use here data gathered from testing it and comparing it to other similar systems.

2.7 Usability
Thus there is a need to build ATC system based on a method which can handle increased air traffic capacity/congestion to provide a safety critical interactive system.The following are the major drawbacks of current ATC system wich are to be improved: Lack of well-defined human/software interface The idea of full automation or minimum human intervention of the ATC system still remains unfulfilled. The existing systems do require human interaction as the system only guides but actual decision is taken by the controllers incharge (ground, local). Need for high maintenance Maintenance of the system is also an issue which can cause problem as discussed by Matthew L. Wald about an incidence in which voice communication between the pilot & controllers broke down &

the reason behind this was found to be a lack of maintenance. Outdated design/technology Obsolete software design and programming language are major barriers to upgrades and efficient software maintenance of the currently used ATC systems because of which improved capacity and efficiency cant be achieved with the current system. The current computer software limits the number of aircraft that can be tracked at any given time, and the dated architecture makes enhancements, troubleshooting and maintenance more difficult. Computer outages, planned or unplanned, are covered by a backup system that cannot handle the same level of air traffic as the main system. The result is significantly limited capacity during backup mode. Mixed communication The communication between the controllers & pilot currently is acombination of voice & datalink. The results of test conducted show that the mixed communication leads to slow speed which can be overcome only when the whole communication takes place in a well defined manner.

2.8 Concurrency
Regarding concurrency the application is intended to work in a distributed maner implemented in more then one computer

3 Appendices
The application has main priority of being secure and to operate so that its guarantees safety for aircrafts and their passengers. The second feature witch is of big importance is the communication between the modules composing the application and the sincronization between them .