Eurocontrol

Speaker Biograghy: Denis was Deputy Head of the Air Navigation Charges Bureau in the French DGCA from 1996 to 2001. He was an expert in the Single Sky Unit of the European Commission from 2001 to 2006, in charge of setting up the EU performance and charging schemes. He was Head of the Projects Office of the Performance Review Unit of Eurocontrol from 2006 to 2013, in charge of running the performance scheme of the Single European Sky. He has been a Senior Expert in the Airport Research Unit of Eurocontrol since 2014, in charge of the development of the APOC concept.


Day 1 - 14 March
Session: Management & Operations

12:30 - 13:00 - Planning capacity-critical operations through fast time simulations at regional airports
Synopsis: Regional airports can face significant capacity issues when external events like several matches of the Euro 2016 football championship are planned to take place near the airport, bringing additional flights and passenger flows on an ad-hoc basis. Together with a regional airport and with Airport Research Centre, Eurocontrol has supported the planning of such events through fast time simulations based on a detailed calibrated landside and airside airport model of the airport. This activity aimed at testing the accuracy of predictions made through fast time simulations in the APOC context.

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Day 1 - 14 March
Session: Management & Operations

10:40 - 11:10 - Predictive performance management in Airport Operations Centre (APOC)
Synopsis: The SESAR Airport Operations Center (APOC) concept focuses on proactive and predictive performance management rather than reactive. This requires improved awareness of past and present performance as well as development of performance prediction tools with a view to supporting collaborative decision making. This presentation will highlight several performance management tools that are being developed and tested by EUROCONTROL with several European airports as part of their APOC implementation (interactive dashboards, fast time simulations, big data and machine learning techniques).

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