Information management and system integration are key enablers for the development of airports in the future. The air traffic control tower environment is often characterised by a number of individual systems all having their own interface, without any common information management. With the development of new concepts in programs such as the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR)~2, it is anticipated that a greater number of systems will provide even more information to the controller in the near future. Therefore, there is a need to integrate the various Airport Airside System Components into an Integrated Tower Working Position (ITWP). The EUROCONTROL airport team developed during the SESAR program, a prototype ITWPthat has been used to validate the integration of new concepts such as routing, guidance and advanced airport safety support tools. For this purpose, the prototype has been used in real time simulations by controllers from France, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Spain and Italy and a shadow/live trial in Riga (Latvia). In this paper we provide a high level description of the different concepts implemented in ITWP, we describe the experiments, we explain the way open interfaces were implemented to allow an easy integration of SESAR industrials porotypes and we provide some recommendation on the implementation of an ITWP at airports.
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