Adacel.com - Solutions & Services: Air Traffic Management

Adacel air traffic management (ATM) products and services are used by some of the world's leading air navigation service providers(ANSP's) to improve the efficiency of their airspaces and provide higher levels of service to their customers - the airspace users. ANSP's who use Adacel's ATM technology are also leading the way in assisting airlines to reduce their fuel burn and greenhouse gas emissions.

Adacel's core ATM product is the Aurora system, one of the world's most advanced CNS/ATM systems. Aurora provides sophisticated Flight Data Processing incorporating all available surveillance sources (Radar, ADSC/B, multilateration), controller pilot data link communications (CPDLC) and advanced conflict determination.

Aurora can support all air traffic domains: oceanic, enroute, approach and tower. It is a modular system that can be scaled from a stand alone workstation to a fully integrated , multi-station operation. Low cost commercially available workstations and high resolution displays reduce system costs while the elimination of manual tasks reduces controller workload.

Adacel's Aurora system provides the ATM automation for the Federal Aviation Administration's Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) Ocean 21 System.

Aurora provides functionality to support NextGen and SESAR initiatives including complete 4D oceanic profile protection, automated conflict detection, monitoring & control by exception, separation based on individual aircraft performance and equipage, dynamic airspace allocation, controller pilot data link communications (CPDLC) and automatic dependent surveillance contract and broadcast (ADS-C and ADS-B).

Among the NextGen and SESAR Demonstrations enabled by Aurora is the European Commission - FAA Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE). Adacel's software is playing a key role in Project Aire as it provides the oceanic ATM automation capability for the FAA's ATOP/Ocean 21 system in New York as well as the Nav Portugal oceanic ATM system in Santa Maria, which together control the oceanic airspaces through which the Project Aire flights are conducted.

Airways and the FAA are partners in the Asia South Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions (ASPIRE). Both the FAA (Oakland Center) and Airways (Auckland Center) use Adacel's software to manage all the traffic in their oceanic airspaces. Project ASPIRE will demonstrate the potential for the commercial aviation industry to reduce carbon emissions starting with a demonstration flight in September 2008.