Capacity & Demand Forecasting Service

The Capacity and Demand Forecasting (CDF) Service provides airport and airline customers with a picture of the expected traffic loading at UK aerodromes and within the UK airspace.

CDF combines capacity and demand forecasting for tactical and strategic planning to provide an accurate representation of predicted traffic loading in aerodrome and airspace environments. The information provided allows customers to plan more effectively and supports a proactive approach to Collaborative Decision Making — increasing efficiency throughout the operations.

Key features include:

• Browser-based display. Read-only representation of the hourly traffic loading for a selected aerodrome or airspace for the current day
• Traffic display windows

  • Summary area for a selected aerodrome, airspace volume or reference location for the current day - presents an overview of the traffic situation and provides a first indication of imbalances between demand and capacity

  • Histogram showing loading of individual airspace element (e.g. sector or airfield)

  • Interactive, searchable flight list

• Filtering capabilities. Customer selectable parameter filtering for the summary area and histograms to show workload, occupancy, 10 minute entries and hourly entries
• Connectivity options. To suit the customer’s availability requirements

Capacity and Demand Forecasting Service

The key benefits of the CDF Service are:

• Common view: Shared UK ATM Network view of the predicted traffic loading for all customers, reducing the need for manual communication
• Accurate forecasting: Capacity and demand forecasting based on 4D trajectory prediction and constraints from a variety of sources
• Network insights: Insights into emerging network situations
• State-of-the-art technology platform: Utilises the latest flight data processing advances
• Predicted planning information: Predictive medium and long term view of aerodrome and airspace traffic loading