Tetra Tech’s suite of aviation solutions includes Volans®, 一个创新, propriety 3D airspace visualization software tool that helps technical and non-technical audiences understand complex data.
BridgeNet, part of the Tetra Tech 联邦它 Group, designed Volans to display and analyze complex technical airspace and procedures. The software includes environmental and operational efficiency analysis tools to determine benefits and risks associated with new procedure development. As a visually stunning, 易于使用的, 响应, and functionally rich data visualization tool, Volans is a major player in airspace planning and flight procedure impact analysis.
Transitioning from radar-based to satellite-based navigation requires redesigning arrival and departure patterns as global air navigation service providers continue to increase safety, 能力, 准时旅行. Volans is a powerful resource in designing new flight procedures, by analyzing flight environmental impact and educating airport staff and officials before changes are finalized. The tool also helps air navigation service providers educate the public about the impact of new procedures.
Volans’s capabilities include:
- Determining aircraft impact on population data
- Analyzing continuous descent approach (CDA), filter, and smooth radar data
- Producing real-time noise footprints
- Animating flights in 3D from any perspective, including the pilot’s
- Integrating with base maps (街, aerial, navigational), including open-source maps
- Importing, creating, and modifying flight procedures
- Calculating and analyzing navigational obstructions
- Storing and recalling user scenarios
- Performing ad hoc shifting of thousands of selected tracks to different runways or procedures for studies of proposed airfield changes
- Integrating with major air traffic design products and myriad forms of flight track data and geospatial file formats
- Providing data for display in web, video, and poster format
美国.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) uses Volans for airspace planning, public outreach meetings, 教育视频, 还有社交媒体. This program is extensively used within the FAA in the Performance Based Navigation (PBN) office and the MetroPlex office to inform communities and stakeholders on upcoming flight pattern changes in major airports.
Volans is customized for integration with airport noise and operations monitoring systems (NOMS), noise modeling tools, and flight procedure design tools. Major airports within the United States, including San Francisco International Airport, Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway International Airports, 约翰韦恩机场, 杰克逊霍尔机场, 和阿斯彭机场, use Volans to analyze noise decibel values from noise monitoring stations.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used Volans to help track low-flying and radar-evading aircraft illegally crossing the Canadian border.
International air navigation service providers, 包括NavCanada, Air Services Australia, 和法国DGAC, use Volans to assist in procedure design and environmental analysis for all airports in their respective countries. Volans also supports London Heathrow International Airport’s Noise 从ice and the airport’s new Third Runway project.
In addition to using Volans to provide solutions to support airports worldwide, Tetra Tech is expanding the use of this tool to other parts of the aviation industry. With its 3D animations and images and extensive aviation and air traffic knowledge base, Volans is positioned to support airline systems, transportation safety boards, 边境巡逻. Applications of Volans include air safety, incident reconstruction, and air traffic control training.
To learn more about Volans, visit airportnetwork.com.
