RAMS Plus™ is a comprehensive turn-key, high-fidelity, cost-effective easy-to-use gate-to-gate ATM/Airport fast-time simulation tool available on the familiar and powerful Windows NT/2000/XP platforms.

RAMS Plus™ is a simulation model providing decision support as applied in the design, analysis, and planning of your ATM systems.

RAMS Plus™ simulates traffic from a macro-to-micro level (gate-to-gate movements), where a single scenario can contain as many flights, sectors, and airports as you need, from a local to global level, to provide insights into the ATM system being studied.

RAMS Plus Benefits: How Can RAMS Plus Help You?

• Measure proposed changes to existing ATM systems (e.g. sectorisation)
• Study impacts of new ATM elements (e.g. new runway or airspace restricted zones)
• Propose changes to increase airspace capacity
• Classical controller workload analyis.
• Unlimited "What If?" perspectives on any ATM system.
• Save Time And Money

RAMS Plus Objectives

Primary RAMS Plus objectives are:

• Model & Study Wide Range of ATC System & Concepts In Fast-Time
• Provide Gate-to-Gate Operations
• Unlimited Number Of Flights & Sectors
• Intuitive and Quick Data Preparation
• Geographic Independence (local To global view)
• Rapid Comparative Analysis
• Macro-To-Micro View (fully data driven scalability)
• Provide Meaningful Views (reports) of Simulation Outputs

RAMS Plus Features

The RAMS Plus ATM modelling features consist of two functional domains: RAMS Plus Airside and Groundside.

What Type Of Data Does RAMS Plus Require?

RAMS Plus is fully data-driven, and includes default data for aircraft models, aircraft performance, airport locations, default rulebases, country frontiers, etc.

RAMS Plus data formats are easy to create, where RAMS Plus data is ASCII text format, and all location references are lat/long in any recognised format (decimal degrees, HHMMSSD, etc.)

If you have time or resource constraints, ISA Software are specialists in ATM analytic studies and data preparation.

To study a basic airspace scenario, you need data to represent

• Navaid names & geographic locations
• Traffic schedule
• Traffic routes (navaids and/or airway routes (comprised of navaids)
• Sectorisation (basically comprised of geographic lat/long corner locations)

To study a basic TMA scenario, you need additional data to represent

• SIDS and STARS
• Airport runway locations
• Holdstacks (optional)

To study a basic airport movements, you need additional data to represent

• runway configurations
• gate locations and gate usage (by airline, aircraft type, etc.
• taxipath routes and usage (by departure/arrival, aircraft type, etc.)

Who Uses RAMS Plus?

Some of the world-wide RAMS Plus Users

Technical: Recommended Platform

RAMS Plus operates on the familiar, powerful, and cost-effective Windows NT/2000/XP platform. There is no need for expensive system administrators to manage your RAMS Plus machines, where installation takes only a few minutes using the familiar InstallShield installation.

Any standard commercial PC with Windows NT/2000/XP PC can run a RAMS Plus simulation, with no special hardware or software. However, to study larger scenarios (10,000+ flights...) it is recommended to have at least 512mb or 1g of RAM memory.