Tactical Departure Management with the Eurocontrol/DLR DMAN

The paper deals with tactical departure management when using the Eurocontrol/DLR DMAN. It describes characteristics of that operational prototype reflected on objectives and requirements of the DMAN development. The description comprises explanations of the general approach and the embedded algorithms with respect to the used operationaland constraint models, the planning, and timing. The paper also outlines the DMAN architecture. Particular consideration is given to first results from real-time simulation trials RTS1 with DMAN which took place in the framework of the European Gate-to-Gate project at Malmo in 2004. In this context an explanation of the operational concept for departure management with DMAN is given. The paper not only shows and comments first, partly surprising results, but also gives some statements about lessons learnt.