In times of increasing air traffic density and reduced vertical separation minima for enroute flights, the airport capacity comes more and more in the focus of automation. One important service at the airports is the air traffic control service provided by the aerodrome control towers. The air traffic controllers at airports experience a high workload and it is therefore essential to provide them with all information and data at their fingertips. They need a harmonized, integrated and easy to read presentation to have more time for decision making.

Avitech Tower Information Management System (TIMS) has been designed to give fully integrated presentation of all environment, airport and support information and data needed by an air traffic controller at an aerodrome control tower and to make the access to this information and data as easy as possible.

TIMS can be seamlessly integrated into existing aerodrome control towers. It has an open architecture based on the latest software architecture design principles and open object oriented interfaces which are freely customizable. The product is based on experience gathered in building three generations of tower information systems over the last 15 years. The Tower Information Management System is a tool box where a new airport layout and the customization can be done in hours.