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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51147 Koln
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1059 CM Amsterdam
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63225 Langen
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75720 Paris
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28022 Madrid
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28036 Madrid
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28022 Madrid
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00138 Roma
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00156 Roma
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00185 Roma
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1130 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1100 Wien
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31300 Toulouse
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148 00 Praha
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28108 Alcobendas Madrid
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00195 Roma
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A96D6R0 Dun Loaghaire Dublin
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PO15 7FL Fareham
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1215 Geneva
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1930 Zaventem
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1185 Budapest
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581 88 LINKOPING
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7034 Trondheim
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602 27 Norrkoping
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581 83 Linkoping
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1030 Wien
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10410 Velika Gorica
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D02 T449 Dublin
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2770 Kastrup
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