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Flexible ATCO Endorsement and LDACS Complement

Project description

Flying high to increase air traffic control capacity and communication

Europe’s aviation industry employs 1.4 million people and supports 5.5 million jobs. Air traffic management is considered a key component of European air transport and aviation – connecting cities and citizens. The SESAR industrial research project PJ33-W3 FALCO is investigating two solutions aiming at increasing the efficiency of air traffic management: one for making the deployment of air traffic controllers more flexible, efficient and responsive to changing traffic demand and conditions; and another solution for performing flight trials for testing of L-band digital aeronautical communication systems (LDACS), a technology offering spectrum-efficient data link connectivity and digital voice communications.

Objective

The overall objective of PJ.33 is to increase (cost) efficiency of the air traffic management (ATM) in two different ways:

On one hand, the goal is to increase air traffic control (ATC) capacity by investigating and validating technical and procedural means based on the previous work done in PJ.10 enabling the re-organization of the endorsement of air traffic controllers working in lower and upper area control service (explicitly excluding approach control service), which will also lead to a reduction in personnel costs and an increase in ATC cost efficiency. This will be achieved by introducing new endorsement rules which are more based on traffic complexity, sector classes and the level of skills, experience and training a controller has received on a specific class of working environment and supporting system.

On the other hand, the efficiency of air-ground communication will be increased (e.g. maximum information throughput per minute) by investigating the technical enabler to broadly introduce the voice capability supported by L-Band Digital Aeronautical Communication System (LDACS) with the ultimate goal to replace analogue voice communication. Furthermore, the future air-ground terrestrial datalink (LDACS) will increase connectivity between air and ground that is essentially to support the future concepts, according to the Master Plan principles of service-orientation and scalability, and it will support also the resilience of aircraft navigation.

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DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV
Net EU contribution

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€ 1 848 407,65
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LINDER HOHE
51147 KOLN
Germany

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Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt
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€ 2 640 582,36

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