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URET Daily: Use Metrics and Benefits Analysis Progress Report
September 2000
Marilyn Walker, The MITRE Corporation
Paul Long, The MITRE Corporation
Niamh Lowry, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
The Free Flight Phase 1 (FFP1) Program is designed to provide
benefits to National Airspace System (NAS) users through the
limited deployment of the core capabilities of several decision
support systems by the year 2002. One component, the User
Request Evaluation Tool (URET) will be implemented at seven Air
Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs). Currently, a URET
daily-use (DU) system is operational at two centers: Indianapolis
(ZID) and Memphis (ZME). Both facilities are operating 22 hours
a day 7 days a week.
Since February 1999, The MITRE Corporation's Center for
Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) has been
systematically examining the use of URET at ZID and ZME on a
monthly basis. CAASD is also assisting the sites in planning
benefit-producing evaluations. CAASD is collecting URET data
and analyzing the tool-generated metrics to determine how the
URET system is being used and what additional
benefit-producing activities can be performed at the centers. This
data analysis has been augmented with on-site observations of
URET operations at both sites.
This report documents the analysis results to date. This activity
will lead to the establishment of a process that will be used at
the other five FFP1 URET sites to integrate URET into their
operations more quickly, thus providing early user benefits.
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