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.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsdrones
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraftrotorcraft
- social sciencessocial geographytransporttransport planningair traffic management
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
PO15 7FL Fareham
United Kingdom
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28207 Bremen
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31700 Blagnac
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31060 Toulouse
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1059 CM Amsterdam
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602 27 Norrkoping
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63225 Langen
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75720 Paris
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00138 Roma
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00156 Roma
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00155 Roma
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1130 Bruxelles / Brussel
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28108 Alcobendas Madrid
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00195 Roma
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TW6 2GW London
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190 45 Stockholm Arlanda
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78990 Elancourt
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33700 Merignac
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51147 Koln
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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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93290 Tremblay-En-France
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0191 Oslo
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85356 Munchen
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1118 ZG Luchthaven Schiphol
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8058 Zurich
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