The result of meetings with ISA Software Ltd have led us to select the RAMS Plus gate-to-gate simulation environment for the ASHiCS project. Essential to our choice was their offer to let us use an API that would permit changes to air traffic during simulations. The API was originally written to conform to National Air Space model (FAA / USA) as part of the NextGen programme. The API is in C++ and provides a message passing infrastructure between information consumers and providers, of which RAMS Plus can act as both.
We'll post more details of how the API works with RAMS Plus in later articles.