Lisbon Airport more efficient with new Technological Platform

 

Under an agreement signed today between the main participants in operations at Lisbon Airport, a technological platform will be created to make airport operations more efficient, benefitting from the sharing of information and the adoption of coordinated processes.

The partners involved in this CDM (Collaborative Decision Making) project are ANA Aeroportos de Portugal (VINCI Airports), NAV, TAP, Portway, and Groundforce.

The signing ceremony was presided by the Secretary of State for Infrastructures, Guilherme W. d’Oliveira Martins, with all the signatory companies being represented by their respective chairpersons, Jorge Ponce de Leão, Chairman of ANA and Portway; Guilhermino Rodrigues, Chairman of Groundforce; Luís Coimbra, Chairman of NAV; and Fernando Pinto, Chairman of TAP.

For several years, these companies have all been committed to implementing Airport Collaborative Decision Making, one of the technological pillars in establishing the Single European Sky. The major aim of this project is to organise the European air space into blocks that are functional rather than determined by the national borders of the various countries, in order to create safe conditions for dealing with the projected growth in air traffic.

The moment has come for the CDM project to take off, after the first operational tests have demonstrated the great potential of this new way to share information and work collaboratively.

This agreement aims to:

  1. Ensure the technical and procedural mechanisms for sharing operational information at Lisbon Airport, which will provide greater efficiency in the overall airport process and the specific processes of each partner;
  2. mplement procedures that go beyond the mere sharing of relevant information in a timely fashion in order to achieve greater predictability in regard to the fundamental stages associated with the flights processed;
  3. Promote the exchange of information between Lisbon Airport and the NMOC (Network Manager Operations Control) to enable predictability and provide more accurate information;
  4. Create a system and permanently assesses the operational conditions of Lisbon Airport concerning the sharing of information and the conditions of predictability. These assessments will be used to propose concrete actions for improvement.