AIRM Docs
AIRM for SWIM
Information Exchange
Air Traffic Management (ATM) stakeholders share and exchange information to perform their function by connecting their systems and interoperating.
SWIM
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is about connecting ATM stakeholders. Using information services, SWIM makes information available to service consumers in support of ATM stakeholders operational needs.
SWIM consists of standards, infrastructure and governance enabling the management of ATM information and its exchange between qualified parties via interoperable services.
Interoperability
To foster global interoperability, ICAO PANS-IM (Doc 10199) published in 2024, covers the globally applicable procedures for information management. At the regional level, such as is the case in Europe, the CP1 Implementing Rule sets the requirements for SWIM implementation and deployment in Europe. At both levels this includes the use of the AIRM as the common ATM vocabulary to foster semantic interoperability between the various exchange models supporting information exchange implementations through information services
Information aspects
The information exchanged between the stakeholders needs to be defined in order to be correctly understood by and encoded in such a way as to be correctly used by the service consumer.
The AIRM is the selected ATM system-wide reference vocabulary for defining ATM information.
The AIRM therefore serves a role in the overall interoperability improvements achieved by SWIM.
The use of the AIRM as a common reference will help ensure the harmonisation of derived models. This, in turn, will help reduce the costs in implementing an information sharing environment. This will benefit existing domains (such as the Aeronautical Information Services) and newly identified ATM services and communities of interest.
