Technical services related to telematics studies for air transport
The European Commission, DG XIII, has launched an open call for tender for the provision of technical services relating to a set of studies on telematics applications for air transport, for which a separate tender was launched on 7 August 1996 (OJ No S 151 of 7.8.1996 p. 33). The contract will provide, for the use of the Commission services, a technical assessment of the results obtained from the studies (including interim results) and recommendations on how to proceed, either within the course of the studies or in subsequent work, taking into account the recommendations of the studies and other relevant material. The studies in question cover the following areas: - Lot 1: Study related to the air-traffic management system in support of the development of strategic plans, particularly for the European core area, with special reference to telecommunications needs; - Lot 2: Study of the air-traffic management system market in support of standardization actions; - Lot 3: Support for standardization actions in global navigation satellites; - Lot 4: Application and demonstration experiments to explore and promote the use of telematics technologies to support advanced concepts in air transport; - Lot 5: Study of the effect of wake vortices in air transport; - Lot 6: The application of telematics to meteorological services; - Lot 7: The cost of implementing Mode S data link, STDMA, the US TDMA, VHF data links; - Lot 8: Data links; - Lot 9: Airlines and current Community initiatives. For further information/tender documents, please contact: European Commission DG XIII - Telecommunications, information market and exploitation of research D. Callahan 200 rue de la Loi (BU29 2/53) B-1049 Brussels Completed tenders should be submitted to the same address.