At most airports, responsibility of air traffic control starts and stops
at the entrance or exit to the runway movement areas, which are taxiways
and runways. In the non-movement areas, such as hangers, ramps, and
aprons, aircraft movements and separation are no longer the
responsibility of air traffic control, but is the responsibility of other
parties such as the airport itself, airlines, or other parties. The use
of tracking technologies for air traffic control is therefore focused on
the movement areas, not the non-movement areas, where there are
limitations in aircraft tracking. Furthermore, many of the aircraft
transmitting devices are switched off in non-movement areas exacerbating
tracking problems in these areas. The present invention includes several
methods including broadband multilateration, to extend aircraft tracking
from the movement areas into non-movement areas without the need to
extend special air traffic control equipment into those areas.