FAA completes rollout of ASDE-X to 35 airports

Posted: 4 October 2011 | FAA | No comments yet

The FAA successfully completed its roll-out of the Airport Surface Detection Equipment – Model X (ASDE-X), to 35 airports…

The FAA successfully completed its roll-out of the Airport Surface Detection Equipment – Model X (ASDE-X), a system that has dramatically improved runway safety at the top 35 airports.

Memphis is the 35th airport to commission ASDE-X, which greatly reduces the potential for collisions on airport runways and taxiways by allowing air traffic controllers to detect potential conflicts and take appropriate action.

ASDE-X works by monitoring real-time surface activity taken from a variety of sources, including radar, sensors from the satellite-based surveillance system called Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast, multilateration sensors and aircraft transponders. ASDE-X fuses this data and projects them on color displays that allow controllers to see the precise location of aircraft and transponder-equipped vehicles on runways, taxiways and approach corridors, as well as aircraft flying within five miles of the airport. The transponders provide the identity of each aircraft and vehicle.

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ASDE-X is especially helpful to controllers at night or in bad weather when visibility is poor. An enhanced safety logic spots potential collisions and provides visual and audible alerts to controllers.

The first ASDE-X became operational at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee in June 2003. Below is a list of the 35 airports with the system.

Baltimore – Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
Boston Logan International Airport
Bradley International Airport
Chicago Midway Airport
Chicago O’Hare International Airport
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
Dallas – Ft. Worth International Airport
Denver International Airport
Detroit Metro Wayne County Airport
Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood Airport
General Mitchell International Airport
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Honolulu International – Hickam Air Force Base Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport
John Wayne – Orange County Airport
LaGuardia Airport
Lambert – St. Louis International Airport
Las Vegas McCarran International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport
Louisville International Airport-Standiford Field
Memphis International Airport
Miami International Airport
Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport
Newark International Airport
Orlando International Airport
Philadelphia International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
San Diego International Airport
Salt Lake City International Airport
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
Theodore Francis Green State Airport
Washington Dulles International Airport
William P. Hobby Airport

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