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**The evolution of Atypical Air Environment through UTM based SORA mitigation** NR, Dronecloud and Railscape (t/a RUAS) have worked together to create a Centrally Managed Drone Hub at NR's Rail Operating Centre (ROC) in Birmingham, leading to Operational Authorisation for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) under the Civil Aviation Authority's (CAA) Atypi...

The Air Traffic Control - Trajectory Based Operations (ATC-TBO) project proposes to validate TBO SESAR Solutions for flights in the tactical execution phase for en-route and TMA operations, thus contributing to the finalisation of the SESAR Phase C developed in SESAR 2020 and the realisation of the Digital European Sky vision in SESAR Phase D. The results...

The European airspace above FL550 is expected to become an area where operations will significantly expand as a result of increased new entrants presence representing both aviation and space domains, with estimated business values in the order of billions of euros per year. The European Air Traffic Management (ATM) system, including ATC’s operational proc...

Since the early days of aviation, barometric pressure measurements have been a simple and robust method for altimetry. Two drawbacks exist though: there is no direct reference to terrain, and the constant variations in pressure caused by the weather lead to increased vertical profile variability restricting capacity and flight efficiency in today’s high t...

The DYN-MARS project aims to minimise the environmental footprint of flights during climb, descent and approach through novel avionic functions and improved arrival routes and procedures. It enables, for the first time, a complete holistic solution that combines airborne with Air Traffic Management (ATM) improvements connected by enhanced communication ca...

Dynamic Airspace Configurationsis at the core of the current and future European air traffic system. Enabling additional airspace capacity is a key factor to address the significant capacity challenges already faced in the recent past and to cope with the (expected) significant growth in air traffic, while maintaining safety, improving flight efficiency a...

Growing traffic numbers, environmental aspects and cost effectiveness issues create a huge demand on the Air Traffic Management to continuously optimize its processes and use of resources. One key resource is the availability air traffic controllers of the air navigation service providers. Due to current regulations and practices, the deployment of air tr...

CICONIA’s ambition is to improve the understanding of non-CO2 emissions with regards to the current aircraft/engine technologies and operating fleet, as well as their evolution and their climate effects, but with the clear objective to evaluate and develop impact reduction solutions covering several promising mitigation options on flight operations, throu...

The Master Planning and Monitoring project (so called AMPLE3 ) is to support the SESAR3 Joint Undertaking (S3JU) in planning and reporting on deployment activities in deployment (covering both industrialisation and implementation), and when need be, to contribute to the update the European ATM MP. The project provides Content Integration (CI) service to S...

The Project encompasses the industrial research aimed to timely and efficiently create and use airspace capacity, in combination with targeted, effective demand and/or capacity measures. As such, it will focus on advanced levels of dynamic airspace configuration, Leveraging different virtualization models, digital INAP applications as well as Network-wide...

The main topics of the VITACY Project (VIrtual center with Triangle Architecture and CYber-resilience) will be: • Continue researching in the ATM virtual center technology field. A virtual center is a single ATSU or a grouping of joint Air Traffic Service Units (ATSU) using data services provided by an ATM Data Service Provider (ADSP). This concept encomp...

GEESE will develop with SESAR the introduction of Wake Energy Retrieval (WER) operations within Europe. Two solutions will be developed in GEESE, and a transversal Wake science work package: The first one is "Enable Europe to North Atlantic WER Operations". This Solution will continue developing and refining the initial Concept of operation (CONOPS), its ...