Our Airbus A340 had to be thoroughly de-iced before departure from Munich. Freezing rain was coating everything with a lethal sheet of ice and as I watched the vehicles moving around our aircraft as it almost disappeared in the steam rising from the wings and fuselage, I wondered whether the cherry-picker operators knew, or even… Continue reading A-CDM course delivered in Dubai
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News from the world of collaborative decision making (CDM)
Air transport growth and the privacy rules… something has to give.
Information is power. Shared information is efficiency. The right information, at the right place and the right time is what air traffic management of the future needs. Whether one reads material on collaborative decision making (CDM), system-wide information management (SWIM) or any number of other papers and articles about ATM, the need for quality information,… Continue reading Air transport growth and the privacy rules… something has to give.
Where CDM Has Gone
Although a lot of people and projects all over the world tend to lay claim to being the originators of the CDM (Collaborative Decision Making) concept, this is something that came from the USA and it was originally an airline initiative which was later picked up and embraced also by the FAA and various airports… Continue reading Where CDM Has Gone
New A-CDM Implementation Manual available now.
Nine years ago one of the very first projects BluSky Services won from EUROCONTROL was the writing and production of the A-CDM Implementation Manual. Having been involved in Collaborative Decision Making from the time when the concept was first put forward by the original CDM Group in the US (led by US Airways), this task… Continue reading New A-CDM Implementation Manual available now.
Causes of Push-Back-Delays in the courtyards of Frankfurt Airport
The Lufthansa flight to Miami leaving from Frankfurt Airport’s terminal 1 – area A/B has been delayed. The flight has not received permission to get rolled onto the runway by the push back vehicles because a plane leaving for Rome just left its gate 10 minutes late and another plane arriving from Berlin needs to… Continue reading Causes of Push-Back-Delays in the courtyards of Frankfurt Airport
Integrated Robot Loading at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
With CDM starting to look increasingly towards the land-side of airports to optimize passenger flow processes in order to have a more predictable aircraft turnaround, it is not surprising that hitherto less visible processes, like baggage handling, are also coming under increasing scrutiny to find opportunities for improvements. Long labor intensive, baggage handling is taking… Continue reading Integrated Robot Loading at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Delivering the Real Time Airport
Connecting terminal and airside operations to enhance true collaborative decision making Martin Bowman, Transport Sector Director for Amor Group, a specialist provider of Airport Operational Systems, discusses the rationale behind Amor’s bid to take CDM concepts firmly in to the heart of the terminal operation, putting passengers at the centre of all airport processes. With… Continue reading Delivering the Real Time Airport
A-CDM eLearning Modules from EUROCONTROL
The free eLearning modules introduce Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) and the challenges involved in introducing A-CDM in practice. The first module, “Introduction to Airport CDM” is dedicated to anyone who would like to get an overview of what Airport CDM is, and is ideally suited for Managers with limited time. Detailed modules explaining the… Continue reading A-CDM eLearning Modules from EUROCONTROL
EUROCONTROL cancels CDM group meeting
When the mail arrived announcing that EUROCONTROL was cancelling the upcoming CDM group meeting due to severe cuts in their budget, I was not really surprised. This was almost expected as part of what appears to be the killing off of EUROCONTROL. That the CDM group was one of the more successful activities was of… Continue reading EUROCONTROL cancels CDM group meeting
The true roots of CDM?
We all know that the original concept of Collaborative Decision Making was born in the US… Atlanta and Philadelphia are the two airports where CDM-type cooperation was first tried and the benefits demonstrated. However, I now suspect that the definition of CDM may in fact have been formulated a good deal earlier. Several centuries earlier…… Continue reading The true roots of CDM?