$80 Billion in Planned and Proposed Projects for Air Traffic Management in Next Decade,
According to Allied Business Intelligence
PR Newswire - May 27, 1998 09:32
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OYSTER BAY, N.Y., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The need to transition Air Traffic Management (ATM) to a new level of performance is driven by
increasing air traffic that is straining the capacities and safety envelopes in airspaces of the most developed regions of the world. In developing regions,
particularly China, economic growth is causing rapid installation of ATM infrastructures.
As what was traditionally called Air Traffic Control (ATC) is evolving into a global Air Traffic Management (ATM) system, many market segments are
blossoming with opportunities. A new report from Allied Business Intelligence, "Air Traffic Management Systems: Changes and Opportunities in Global
ATC Equipment Markets" evaluates the ATC equipment market size over the next decade. The report identifies over $80 billion in planned and proposed
projects.
The global market for radar systems will expand from $2 billion to $4 billion per year in less than a decade
A more quickly growing market, ATM software, will reach $2 billion in five years. This market is driven by flexibly programmed commercial computer
systems and the flow of data streams from a variety of sensor systems.
Early successes with GPS (Global Positioning Satellite System) signals for navigation have made GPS the cornerstone of new ATM management
architectures. The new world is close, and there is a significant market for ATC equipment for the move to a global system.
The report projects the growth of key electronic ATC equipment segments in terms of nine regions of the globe. The reasons for recent shifts in growth rates
for various geographic regions are analyzed.
The burgeoning market for software includes routines that assimilate data streams, en route centers, TRACONs and airport sensors to feed information into
zoomable area displays on ATC terminals, giving controllers real airspace management capabilities. New software developments are improving the ability
of controllers to monitor airport surface traffic and detect potential conflicts on the ground and in the air.
Early FAA results with Differential GPS (DGPS) trials led to deployment of a Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) array that will be operational in
North America in 1998. Near-term developments will take the system to Category I precision. WAAS will quickly become a billion dollar market early in
the next century. The report discusses why and where it will be deployed.
An enhancement to aircraft Mode S avionics turns them into GPS squitters, the backbone system for Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast
(ADS-B). Couple this to voice and data switches and Communication-Navigation- Surveillance (CNS/ATM) is at the threshold of realization. The report
discusses the reasons for delays in ADS-B implementation and quantifies the size of the market for CNS/ATM enabling technologies.
The delays also impact movement of Airport Surface Detection Equipment (ASDE) to a DGPS basis, slowing the rate of conversion from Airport
Surveillance Radar (ASR) to Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) scans.
Operational tests with a prototype Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) are scheduled for Fall 1998. Once deployment begins, the market will be
furious with this low-cost alternative to the standard Instrument Landing System (ILS).
Until LAAS is available, only Precision Runway Monitors (PRM) furnish safe, simultaneous parallel runway use. PRM will experience relatively strong
market growth in the next few years.
The report investigates the market impact of a turnover in the ways things are done to the way the world will work in just a few years.
Nearly a hundred charts and tables project the growth and transition of nine key ATC electronic equipment markets. Numerous available and planned ATC
projects in various regions around the globe are quantified. Attention is given to the dominant companies, the reasons for their success, and the impacts of
consolidation among equipment manufacturers.
SOURCE Allied Business Intelligence, Inc.
/CONTACT: Tim Archdeacon of Allied Business Intelligence, 516-624-3113/
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