Improved Location/ldentification of Aircraft/Ground Vehicles on Airport Movement Areas: Results of FAA Trials

Rick Castaldo, Carl Evers and Alex Smith

Abstract:	This paper describes the development, implementation, and testing of the Airport Surface Target Identification System (ATIDS), and presents results of initial trials conducted at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. The overall goal of the research is to implement cost effective surveillance systems that can reduce the risk of runway incursions. A runway incursion occurs when a vehicle strays onto an active runway, usually caused by human error. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has identified the prevention of runway incursions as a high-priority safety issue. Approximately 200 runway incursions occur each year in the United States and several serious accidents involving loss of life have occurred (Detroit, Dece’mber 1990; Los Angeles, February 1991, St. Louis 1994). One of the FAA initiatives to address this safety issue is ATIDS. ATIDS provides the location and identification of all aircraft and vehicle traffic on the airport movement area and in selected ramp and gate areas. ATIDS is based on SSR technology and is an enhancement to current airport primary surveillance equipment which is primarily the Airport Surface Detection Equipment- 3/Airport Movement Area Safety System (ASDE- 3lAMASS).
Published in:	Proceedings of the 1996 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 22 - 24, 1996 Loews Santa Monica Hotel Santa Monica, CA
Pages:	555 - 562
Cite this article:	Castaldo, Rick, Evers, Carl, Smith, Alex, "Improved Location/ldentification of Aircraft/Ground Vehicles on Airport Movement Areas: Results of FAA Trials," Proceedings of the 1996 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Santa Monica, CA, January 1996, pp. 555-562.
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