Tag: 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.

Airport Information Network (AIN) – What is this?

The environment and circumstances surrounding aircraft moving about on the ground at an airport is nothing short of puzzling. An almost random mix of legacy technology and procedures and state of the art innovation, an airport is a place where aircraft, already out of their element, meet special challenges and unique dangers. On average, there… Continue reading Airport Information Network (AIN) – What is this?

The Principles of the TITAN Tool GUI

The current turnaround process involves many different entities performing many different operations and letting much inefficiency to arise. This may be attributed to lacking common situational awareness; inadequate information sharing and fragmented data flows. As a result readjustment of aircraft’s target off-block time is often unavoidable. By improving common situational awareness at the airport level,… Continue reading The Principles of the TITAN Tool GUI

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

Standard Inputs for EUROCONTROL Cost Benefit Analyses

All right, I will be the first to admit that creating cost-benefit analyses is not my favorite occupation on sunny afternoons. On the other hand, my company had been the lead for numerous projects aimed at developing the CBA for things like Collaborative Decision Making, among others. As such, I know the value of standard… Continue reading Standard Inputs for EUROCONTROL Cost Benefit Analyses

The pessimism of an optimist

Some readers of Roger-Wilco asked me why we tend to report on problems so often. The answer is simple. Because almost nobody else seems to be doing it. If you read the official communiqués from various projects, they do tend to project a much brighter picture and if you read only those, you will sleep… Continue reading The pessimism of an optimist

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?