McLaren Applied Technologies, a division of the McLaren Group has collaborated with Britain's National Air Traffic Services to improve ground-level air traffic efficiency for airports, including Heathrow.
McLaren Applied Technologies successfully mines the rich seam of accumulated knowledge within the Group to resolve a diverse and fascinating series of third-party technical projects and collaborations. Here's a new and innovative project.
On every lap of every race, practice session or test, the McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 car produces vast quantities of data. To gather, transmit and process that data in real time so that engineers can make potentially race-winning decisions, McLaren has developed sophisticated tools that found their ways in new domains.
Heathrow, London’s busiest airport, is running close to capacity. Incoming flights spend an average of twenty minutes in a holding pattern, accounting for 30 per cent of the airport’s CO2 emissions, and that figure is almost matched by planes taxiing on the ground.
The National Air Traffic Control Service (NATS) challenged McLaren to create a solution that would improve the customer experience by reducing delays, and would reduce emissions through greater efficiency. Airlines would benefit in turn because fewer hours of each engine’s duty cycle would be wasted between services.
At every Grand Prix, McLaren engineers track the movement of every car on the circuit to pick the optimum time to make the pit stops, aiming to send Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button back out onto a clear track.
The McLaren system processes countless data streams in real time and shows them as an easily understood graphic, enabling our strategists to pick the exactly right moment.
McLaren Applied Technologies has adapted this system to speed the entire landing cycle of an aeroplane: from the optimum approach pattern to the fastest journey to the right gate, delivering and picking up passengers and then departing as quickly as possible.
A graphical front end tool, designed with input from NATS, which allows a visualisation of airport movements. It has been designed to improve the performance of an airport, optimise capacity, minimise delays, consider environmental pressures and anticipate issues.
The system enable users to input immediate or future changes to the airport operation, such as closure of runways, reduced departure/landing rates. For given changes to the airport operation, the model will generate predicted traffic loadings and an indication for the airport.
McLaren Applied Technologies successfully mines the rich seam of accumulated knowledge within the Group to resolve a diverse and fascinating series of third-party technical projects and collaborations. Here's a new and innovative project.
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| The McLaren system processes countless data streams in real time. (Photo McLaren) |
On every lap of every race, practice session or test, the McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 car produces vast quantities of data. To gather, transmit and process that data in real time so that engineers can make potentially race-winning decisions, McLaren has developed sophisticated tools that found their ways in new domains.
Heathrow, London’s busiest airport, is running close to capacity. Incoming flights spend an average of twenty minutes in a holding pattern, accounting for 30 per cent of the airport’s CO2 emissions, and that figure is almost matched by planes taxiing on the ground.
The National Air Traffic Control Service (NATS) challenged McLaren to create a solution that would improve the customer experience by reducing delays, and would reduce emissions through greater efficiency. Airlines would benefit in turn because fewer hours of each engine’s duty cycle would be wasted between services.
At every Grand Prix, McLaren engineers track the movement of every car on the circuit to pick the optimum time to make the pit stops, aiming to send Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button back out onto a clear track.
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| The F1 graphic shows the car out on the race track. The circle represents the road course. |
The McLaren system processes countless data streams in real time and shows them as an easily understood graphic, enabling our strategists to pick the exactly right moment.
McLaren Applied Technologies has adapted this system to speed the entire landing cycle of an aeroplane: from the optimum approach pattern to the fastest journey to the right gate, delivering and picking up passengers and then departing as quickly as possible.
A graphical front end tool, designed with input from NATS, which allows a visualisation of airport movements. It has been designed to improve the performance of an airport, optimise capacity, minimise delays, consider environmental pressures and anticipate issues.
The system enable users to input immediate or future changes to the airport operation, such as closure of runways, reduced departure/landing rates. For given changes to the airport operation, the model will generate predicted traffic loadings and an indication for the airport.