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Safely Optimized Runway Throughput

Project description

Increasing airport safety

Forecast growth in air traffic will increase pressure on Europe’s airports. Airports are looking for ways to improve runway and airport throughput while maintaining safety levels. The EU-funded VLD3-W2 SORT project will the test six solutions delivered under the SESAR Joint Undertaking: optimised separation delivery on final approach (PJ.02-01-01) wake turbulence separations (for arrivals) based on static aircraft characteristics (PJ.02-01-04) reduction of wake turbulence risk considering acceleration of wake vortex decay in ground proximity (PJ.02-01-07) minimum pair separations based on required surveillance performance (PJ.02-03) trajectory based integrated runway sequence (PJ.02-08-01) and increased runway throughput based on local ROT characterisation (ROCAT) (PJ.02-08-03). Demonstrations are foreseen at London Heathrow, Vienna and Stockholm Arlanda.

Objective

The expected rapid growth in air traffic will lead to an increasing number of capacity constrained airports. Therefore airports have to improve significantly the runway and airport throughput while maintaining or increasing runway safety levels. In SESAR 2020 WAVE-1 this was mainly addressed by PJ02 with the four solutions:

PJ.02-01: Wake turbulence separation optimisation
PJ.02-02: Enhanced arrival procedures
PJ.02-03: Minimum Pair Separations based on required surveillance performance
PJ.02-08: Traffic optimisation on single and multiple runway airports

This VLD covers four solutions:

The use of aircraft type-specific pairwise separation will be used at Heathrow Airport, focusing on the runway occupancy time part of the overall TBS concept. At Vienna, the use of a wake decay enhancing device is intended to be demonstrated. There will be a demonstration at Zurich Airport of a concept known as ROCAT, which enables a reduction in the surveillance separation minimum for in-trail pairs on final approach, including a revised runway occupancy time aircraft classification. The benefits of an integrated AMAN-DMAN runway sequencer will be demonstrated at Stockholm Arlanda in shadow mode.

Together these demonstrations will collect evidence of the concept(s) within the overall time-based separation concept. As such the proposed large scale demo VLD3-W2 SORT closes the gap between the actual concept development and the deployment (or pre-industrialization) phases by demonstrating the operational and technical readiness. And by doing so de-risking the later deployment phases of these four solutions, either in real life trials and/or shadow modes trials at major European airports, this will ensure trust in the SESAR results.

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IA - Innovation action

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(opens in new window) H2020-SESAR-2019-1

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Coordinator

STICHTING KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS LUCHT - EN RUIMTEVAARTCENTRUM
Net EU contribution

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€ 703 762,55
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€ 1 005 376,25

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