Raytheon BBN Technologies

Analysis of Mobility Platform—Port Analysis Tools(AMP-PAT) is an integrated suite of analysis and decision support tools to help Department of Defense analysts and planners evaluate airport and seaport operations and capabilities. These tools can model transportation processes and personnel activities from arrival to departure during normal operations or during a Crisis-Action or Time-Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDD) development process. AMP-PAT helps optimize throughput by improving transportation enabler force package sizing and sequencing and supports programmatic analysis, such as the Mobility Capabilities Study (MCS) and the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). AMP-PAT models port activities from reception to onward movement. This includes for airports: loading and unloading cargo, refueling aircraft, and pre-and post-flight maintenance, and for seaports: loading and unloading cargo and berthing and deberthing ships.

AMP-PAT modeling tools help identify strengths and weaknesses and enables users to run a variety of scenarios to assess how various changes might impact operations. The AMP-PAT suite includes the following modeling tools:

• Airport Simulation Tool (AST) and Seaport Simulation Tool (SST). These tools provide a constructive, stochastic, discrete-event simulation of airport and seaport transportation resources and processes. The full range of Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration (RSO&I) tasks are modeled with emphasis on the Reception, Staging, and Onward Movement processes. Conveyances of all types (aircraft, ships, road, and rail) are represented along with their consumption of port resources (parking, berths, fuel, material handling equipment [MHE]/container handling equipment [CHE], personnel, cargo/passenger staging). Cargo is represented by commodity type and configuration, including size, weight, and special handling characteristics. Intermodal cargo movements are supported between all modes of air, sea, and land (road/rail). Airport fuel storage and delivery systems are modeled in significant detail, including dynamic flow rates, fuel truck and hydrant systems, fuel tanks, fuel settling requirements, and resupply. Breakdown and repair times are modeled stochastically for all MHE equipment types and aircraft.
• Airport Throughput Tool (ATT) and Seaport Throughput Tool (STT). The ATT and STT are analysis and planning tools that determine an airport or seaport’s maximum throughput and provide a quick-look analysis of the factors restricting throughput.
• Airport Rapid Analysis Tool (ARAT) and Seaport Rapid Analysis Tool (SRAT). These are TPFDD refinement tools that provide a quick-look analysis of airport and seaport transportation enablers’ capability to meet the TPFDD reception and onward movement of cargo and passengers.

AMP-PAT supports non-federated interoperability with external models and simulations, such as the Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST) and accepts external feeds from GDSS, Target, and PIDB data.

The U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) and its Joint Distribution Process Analysis Center (JDPAC) have been primary users of AMP-PAT. Use of the tools is expanding into AMC’s AMOWs and A-9 group.