Rocío Barragán Montes

• PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Masters degree in Mathematics Science
• Analyst at European Organisation For The Safety Of Air Navigation

The air transportation network is essential to ensure mobility and connectivity between important metropolises and regions in Europe. Within the overall system, full-service network carriers operate sub-systems consisting of hub and spoke airports. These airlines enable various connections from different destinations by a low number of routes via t...

Continuous climb operation is an operational concept that allows airlines to perform an optimal departing trajectory avoiding air traffic control segregation requirements. This concept implies the design and integration of air traffic flows for the sake of safety performance. This paper designs a new conflict-detection air traffic control tool base...

Air traffic networks are highly dependent on airport arrival processes, which are common triggers for capacity constraints and delay propagation. Arrival Manager tools aim to improve arrival flows at airports. To do so they need reliable, accurate assessments of potential congestion and delay issues. This paper sets out a methodology for predicting...

The full benefits of Continuous Climb Operations (CCO) are realised when CCO are performed without interruption. However, CCO require safe departures that necessarily implies a reduction in capacity at high density traffic airports. This paper quantifies the capacity impact due to the integration of CCO (conflict-free with other departures and arri...

The aim of this paper is to describe the experience of the implementation of an educational project based on the model "challenge-based learning". This collaborative project focuses on the interrelations of demand, predictability and safety in air transport. Specifically, it involves three subjects of the Master's Degree in Air Transport Systems at...

Trajectory predictability is a paramount cornerstone of trajectory-based operations. The uncertainty in the four-dimensional position of aircraft affects the number of flights that the Air Traffic Control service is able to manage. Consequently, airspace capacity is directly impacted by a poor predictability performance. This paper presents a metho...

Trajectory predictability is a paramount cornerstone of trajectory-based operations. The uncertainty in the four-dimensional position of aircraft affects the number of flights that the Air Traffic Control service is able to manage. Consequently, airspace capacity is directly impacted by a poor predictability performance. This paper presents a metho...

The definition of a set of precursory safety metrics is critical to detect when an airspace is degrading in terms of safety and thus undesired effects are becoming more likely. Furthermore, safety metrics are paramount in the measurement of the impact of new operational procedures or technical improvements in the air traffic control system. The stu...

This paper presents a benchmarking analysis of the efficiency and productivity of the air navigation service providers in Europe. Its aim is to determine the relative position of each air navigation service provider in terms of efficiency, the potential for achieving specific performance targets, and how close or far each organization is from the o...

Aligned with SESAR objectives of Traffic Synchronisation and 4D Trajectory Management, this paper presents different approaches to optimised algorithms in AMAN's, taking into account various innovative criteria. Analysing KPI's commonly used in TMA's, the different algorithms are tested in order to detect the strengths and weakness of each algorith...

This paper presents a comparison between the most relevant on-going activities in the creation and implementation of the Arrival Traffic Synchronisation Concept of Operations worldwide, by analysing and breaking down the requirements and approaches underlying the problem of 'tactical establishment and maintenance of a safe, orderly and efficient fl...

The goal of the paradigm shift in Air Traffic Management (ATM) is to increase its overall performance by means of redesigning processes, evolving to a more automated, autonomous and predictable system. Nevertheless, when dealing with automation, it is important to determine until what extent can any part of the system or process be automated, that...

In the context of civil air navigation, and following the proposed paradigm shift for Air Traffic Management (ATM), it has become necessary to be able to improve accuracy of Trajectory Predictors (TP). This is particularly relevant for analysis and design of Terminal Manoeuvring Areas procedures, which consist of a mixture of conventional, Continuo...