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PJ01 Wave 2 Enhanced Arrivals and Departures

Project description

Streamlining the airspace around airports

Air Traffic Control is a complex system with numerous components that need to monitor every single movement on runways and in the air to ensure safety and efficiency. To further improve operations, the EU-funded PJ.01-W2-EAD project is developing concepts, tools and procedures, from both an airborne and a ground-system perspective, to enhance the use of terminal manoeuvring areas and enable greater use of Optimised Climb and Descent Operations, which allow aircraft to follow an optimum path. The focus will be to reduce emissions per flight, improve resilience and predictability and ensure better management of delay in these capacity-constrained high-density and complex terminal manoeuvring areas.

Objective

In order to meet the forecast traffic growth, and in particular to address the performance issues encountered in summer 2018, PJ01-W2 will develop concepts, tools and procedures to increase the capacity of Terminal Manoeuvring Areas (TMAs) in a safe, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable manner. This will be achieved by taking advantage of the latest technological developments from both an airborne and a ground-system perspective and through the secure sharing of data. The needs of all Airspace Users will be addressed including Rotorcraft.

The aim will be to improve the capacity whilst exploiting the environmental benefits achieved from Continuous Climb Operations (CCO), Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) and improved arrival sequencing. A focus will be to minimise delays and improve resilience and predictability for capacity-constrained high-density/complexity TMAs. This will be achieved by enhancing arrival and departure management by the dynamic use of precision navigation routes and optimised profiles. Traffic flows will be optimised by improving the integration of the management of departures with arrivals, including extended Arrival Manager (AMAN) and ground holding from in-horizon departures, and by improving the capability to balance traffic demand and available capacity across the network and airports.

The use of procedures and technologies to improve integration of rotorcraft operations within TMAs, and interoperability with General Aviation (GA), drones and Remotely-Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), will be addressed which will also provide increased resilience in poor weather.

To ensure that the full benefits are achieved and that the expected performance improvements are realised in the context of the overall ATM network, close co-ordination will take place with other projects, particularly those addressing airport management, network management, trajectory and separation management and the overall content integration within the programme.

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NATS (EN ROUTE) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
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€ 910 000,00
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4000 PARKWAY WHITELEY
PO15 7FL Fareham
United Kingdom

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Region
South East (England) Hampshire and Isle of Wight Central Hampshire
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Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 1 900 000,00

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