Development of a data driven realistic agent based model for current ground surface operations at Schiphol
The development of this tool aims to provide a modular and flexible platform for users to easily develop and simulate Agent Based Models (ABM) for current Airport Surface Operations. Because of the future air traffic growth expectations, many researchers and companies around the globe are focusing on new developments and the optimization of current Air Traffic Management (ATM) processes and procedures. All of these proposed concepts are being tested and validated with different simplistic self-made simulations or expensive and rigid private commercial simulators.
The architecture to be implemented aims to provide an open source simulator framework that could bridge the gap between custom self-made simulations and private commercial simulators. By having a common open-source framework to easily implement and test new research, students, researchers and companies could accelerate their development and better contribute to the challenges faced today in a more standardized and collaborative way.
Furthermore, a realistic and well calibrated model of the current operations is critical to serve as the baseline and first step to test, evaluate, verify and analyze any future or current implementation. The availability of such a model would be incredibly useful to quickly and flexibly test new procedures, human machine interfaces, interactions between the stakeholders, infrastructure sizing analysis, workload, etc.