Airport C
ollaborative Decision Making
(A
-
CDM)
is
based on information sharing.
A better use of resources can be
attained w
hen the different
stakeholders
at
airport operations
share their more accurate and updated information
.
One of the
main difficulties when dealing with this
information sharing
concept is the number of stakeholders involved and their
different
interest and
behaviour
:
aircraft operators
,
gro
und
handling companies,
airport authority,
air traffic control and the
Central Flow Management Unit
.
It is paramount to quantify the
benefit of an airport collaborative decision making strategy in
order to involve all these different organisations.
Simulat
ions are
required to analyse the
overall system and its
emerging
behaviour
.
This paper presents
the development and initial
t
est
ing of
a
n agent
-
based framework
,
which
allows
this
behavioural
analysis
to be done
.
The simulator explicitly
represents the diff
erent stakeholders
involved in the A
-
CDM and
the
interactions between them
during the 16 milestones defined
by
EUROCONTROL
o
n its A
-
CDM implementation manual
.
T
his framework allows independent
gradual
development of local
behaviours
and optimisation,
and
a gradual
increase
on
complexity and fidelity on the simulationsPeer ReviewedPostprint (published version
