Global leadership in safe and efficient air traffic management

Airservices Australia provides customers in Australia and around the world with solutions for safe, efficient, effective and environmentally sound airspace and airside systems and services.

Airservices Australia was one of the first Air Navigation Service Providers in the world to successfully implement a new fully-automated Air Traffic Management System. The Australian Advanced Air Traffic System (TAAATS) delivers world-leading safety and efficiency in air traffic control and navigation services. Airservices Australia now provides systems and operational expertise to assist other air traffic control providers implement and operate new Air traffic Management (ATM) technologies.

Reliable, tested and integrated solutions for aircraft positioning, navigation, communication and traffic control including:

• Upper and lower airspace management
• Tower management and procedures design
• Communication Navigation Surveillance (CNS)/ATM operational procedures and implementation
• Environmental impact management services
• Air Traffic Controller (ATC) training programs
• Global Navigation Satellites Systems (GNSS) services including evaluation, procedures development, systems installation and flight testing
• Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast ( ADS-B) design and implementation

Customer Benefits

• Enhanced safety and operational benefits through effective implementation and management of ATM technology
• Proven, international-standard frameworks and systems for safety assurance
• Traffic management systems and procedures that optimise airport utilisation and airline operational performance
• Operational procedures that deliver efficiency and cost control
• Comprehensive, operational support services including documentation, procedures design and development, quality assurance, occupational health and safety and environmental management
• ATC human resource management expertise that delivers a highly skilled, efficient, sustainable and safety focussed workforce
• Customer partnering approach
• Integrated airspace and airside consultancy and management services.

ATM technology implementation

Airservices Australia is a leader in the introduction of a number of new technologies and procedures for enhanced ATM safety and efficiency.

Airservices Australia has a number of programs designed to develop Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast ( ADS-B) as a cost-effective aircraft tracking alternative. ADS-B is a new air traffic surveillance technology that enables aircraft to be accurately tracked by Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) and other pilots without the need for conventional radar.

ADS-B will enhance safety and provide operational benefits, particularly in remote regions of Australia and in other areas of the world where aircraft surveillance coverage is inadequate, for a fraction of the cost of radar.

Airservices Australia and aviation telecommunications provider SITA are also examining the potential for ADS-B services in the Asia-Pacific region. The partnership is developing concepts for ADS-B infrastructure development and management.

Airservices Australia is also able to assist other service providers with ATC automation system (i.e. Eurocat) enhancements and the resolution of other operational issues associated with the introduction of ADS-B.

Airservices Australia is responding to the ICAO determination that an augmentation system is required for civil aircraft to safely use GNSS as the primary navigational tool. Augmentation systems address recognised deficiencies in the accuracy, integrity availability and reliability of GNSS signals. We are playing a leading role in development of two augmentation systems - GBAS (Ground Based Augmentation System) and GRAS (Ground-based Regional Augmentation System).