The need for European airports to become more operationally efficient is fundamental. In that respect PJ04-W2 (Total Airport Management Project) develops concepts, tools and procedures to increase the predictability and resilience of airport operations, improving the punctuality of flights in a safe and environmentally sustainable manner. A TAM airport is a Network-connected, smart, resilient and green airport. The aim is to improve airport/network integration for large and medium/regional airports, improve airport airside/landside integration, reduce the impact of MET aspects on airport operations, make further investigations about how environmental aspects could be monitored and managed in day-to-day airport operations. This was achieved through:
(a) increasing the coordination between Airports and the Network,
- Validating the concept of regional network integrated airports (solution 28.1 which achieved v3-finalised maturity). The solution promotes the concept of regional airport connectivity which will help in removing a large part of the gap.
- Developing the Regional Airport(s) Collaborative Management concept (solution 28.2 which achieved v2 on going maturity), especially investigating the applicability of APOC concept to regional airports, based on a suitable level of airport process performance management (Lite APOC).
- Reinforcing the Airport Operations Plan (AOP)/Network Operations Plan (NOP) data exchange collaborative process for large airports (solution 28.3 which achieved v3 on going maturity) on departure aspects.
(b) improving airport performance as a whole:
- Progressing in the area of Airside/Landside Performance Management (solution 29.1 which achieved v3 on-going maturity)
- Validating MET performance Management concept (solutions 29.2a and 29.2b which both achieved v3 on-going maturity) to increase the resilience to meteorological events through pro-active management of their impacts on the Airport Operations Plan (AOP) at very large / large and medium hub airports (solution 29.2a) and medium / small airports (solution 29.2b)
- Investigating environmental Performance Management (solution 29.3 which achieved v2 finalised maturity) with the aim of integrating environmental considerations into the overall airport operations management process.