SESAR Programme Status

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SESAR Programme Status

• Bernard Miaillier
• Head of SESAR ATM Strategy
• Farnborough, 3 October 2007

European Organisation for the Safety of Air
Navigation
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A New ATM System is Needed

• Traffic forecast to double by 2025
• Air Traffic growth must come with
• Significant reduction in safety incidents
• Maintaining delays at economic optimum
• Issues
• ATC pushed to its limits
• Airspace fragmentation
• Obsolescent technologies

Traffic
Closing the capacity gap
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SESAR European ATM Master Plan Committing to
Make Future Happen

• Needs
• Turn off fragmented approach
• Accelerate evolution in response to challenges
• Synchronise plans and actions
• from research to operations
• airborne and ground deployments

• SESAR
• Technical/operational change, supported by Single
  European Sky legislation
• Address European needs and Global interoperability

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SESAR Cohesive Programmefor Stepwise
Implementation
2005
2010
2015
2020
Definition
SESAR Phases
Development
Deployment
European ATM Master Plan
Implementation Development work Planning work
Current work
2005
2010
2015
2020
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SESAR Definition Phase

• Under the responsibility of EUROCONTROL
• Co-funded by EC through TEN-T
• Industry wide consortium
• with substantial EUROCONTROL effort contribution

60 Million 2 years 300 man-year

• Project Associates ATM Research Centres, UK
  CAA, EURAMID, ECA, IFATCA, ETF, ATC-EUC, IFATSEA,
  US Industry (Boeing, Honeywell, Rockwell)
• Sub-Contractors

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SESAR Definition Phase Main Milestones and
Deliverables
Reference to derive technical requirements for
architecture enabling systems
Change steps with performance gains from agreed
baselines (now, 2013, 2020)
Actions of all stakeholders to achieve the
performance benefits
July 06 Dec 06 June 07
Nov 07 Feb 08 March 08
Air Transport Framework The Current Situation
ATM Performance Targets
ATM Target Concept
ATM Deployment Sequence
ATM Master Plan
Work Programme for 2008-2013
D6
D5
D4
D3
ATM MASTER PLAN Shorter term Implementation
actions Longer term RD actions
D2
D1
T0 6 March 2006
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11 SESAR Key Performance Areas (same as ICAO)
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Quantified Performance Targets
Derived from needs of society and airspace users

• Design Goals for scalable future capability
• Safety factor 10
• Capacity handle 3 times traffic
• Environment - 10 effects per flight

Progressive deployment, when/where needed

• 2020 targets
• Capacity 73 overall
• Safety improvement factor 3
• Costs to airspace users - 50

Also addressed Security, Efficiency,
Flexibility, Predictability, Global
Interoperability, Access, Equity, Participation
(Reference 2005)
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A tri-partite Partnership to Achieve Performance
in Operations

Future European ATM System
Supply of airspace capacity air traffic
services
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A Paradigm Shift from airspace-based to
trajectory-based environment
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SESAR Concept of Operations (1/3)

• A central tenet Trajectory Management
• Flight handled as a gate-to-gate continuum
  including turnaround operations
• Execution of each flight as close as possible to
  owners intention the business/mission
  trajectory
• Driver for a new approach to dynamic airspace
  design management
• 4D trajectory management enabling user-preferred
  routing (except where/when provision of
  sufficient capacity requires structured network)

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SESAR Concept of Operations (2/3)

• A managed network
• Integration of airports in the ATM system
• Collaborative planning of network operations and
  demand/capacity balancing continuously reflected
  in the Network Operations Plan (NOP)
• User Driven Prioritisation Process allowing
  Airspace Users to trade between themselves delay
  allocation
• Network Manager is the ultimate mediator
• New features and techniques
• New separation modes
• Enhanced automation to assist the human who will
  remain central in the system as manager and
  decision-maker

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SESAR Concept of Operations (3/3)

• Collaborative Decision Making enables better
  decisions and efficient operations
• airspace user needs and network constraints are
  considered timely
• better understanding of the network effects of
  the decisions
• Requirements
• best possible information to be available, shared
  used, integrating aircraft and ground
  facilities
• a system wide information management allowing
  each stakeholder to exploit the power of shared
  information, within an appropriate system
  architecture

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ConOps Impact on Information Needs
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SESAR Service-Oriented Architecture Serving
Information Sharing Decision-Making

• A main SWIM enabler a comprehensive information
  model integrating all ATM business related data
• With defined quality of service requirements
• Timeliness (real-time-sharing), Accuracy,
  Availability, Security, etc.
• With rules for ownership, access, right to modify

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SWIM Information at the Heart of the System
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CNS Technologies

• Communication
• Data link as primary means, voice as back-up
• New a-g data link 2 independent complementary
  means, terrestrial satellite
• New airport surface communication data link,
  WIMAX based (ATS AOC)
• PENS as integrated fixed ground-ground IP based
  network (SWIM, voice over IP)
• Navigation
• GNSS primary aircraft positioning means for all
  flight phases
• Decommissioning of conventional Navaids DME
  maintained as back-up
• FMS / aircraft functions enhanced to support 4 D
  trajectories special approaches
• Surveillance
• Independent Cooperative Surveillance (WAM, SSR
  Mode S)
• PSR MS PSR for security safety
• ADS-B Out 1090 ES for non radar airspace as
  complement
• Air-Air Surveillance for ASAS initially via
  1090ES, then high performance ADS-B link
• Airport surface Combination of MLAT, SMR ADS-B
  Out
• Airborne/ground wake vortex weather radars

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Technological Issues

• Much RD work is already underway
• But more is needed NOW
• Outstanding issues include
• Spectrum availability
• Solution costs
• Global interoperability
• Some key decisions still pending further work
• Final selection of optimum technologies
• Time line for deployment of specific solutions
• Cost saving expected from
• reduction in terrestrial navigation aids
• introduction of new surveillance systems

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Performance CBA

• Holistic performance assessment with consensus as
  main goal
• Quantitative Fast Time Simulations, Influence
  Modelling
• Qualitative Screening, Influence Modelling,
  Expert Judgement
• Cost assessment and CBA overall per
  stakeholder group
• Preliminary assessment, generally positive
• More favourable to scheduled airlines
• Confirms strategic infrastructure nature of
  investment
• Cost Effectiveness target difficult to conclude
  on feasibility

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ATM Performance Partnership

• ATMPP to include, as equals, all stakeholders
• Coordinated, consistent stakeholder position as
  inputs to regulatory framework
• Close coordination with ATMPP stakeholders for
  ATM performance monitoring operational/technica
  l coordination
• Human change management Social Factors
• to be managed cooperatively with social partners

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Institutional Regulatory Framework

• No Show Stopper !
• Evolution of roles/responsibilities might have
  legal implications
• Recommendations
• Use existing legal framework
• Uniform legal regime for liability
  accident/incident investigation desirable
• Further recommendations for
• Safety regulation
• Environmental regulation

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Subsequent Milestones

• D4 (Deployment Sequence) - ongoing
• Important to get user/ANSP consensus on structure
  between implementation packages elementary
  operational improvements, and on deployment
  dates
• D5 (ATM Master Plan)
• Kick-off on 1 October
• D4 and D5 important to identify the substance of
  the main technical developments of JU work
  programme
• D6 (Work Programme)
• Kick-off on 5 October
• Important to quickly agree on the overall WBS and
  align it with JU requirements and membership
  negotiations

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Conclusion

• SESAR ATM Target Concept is agreed
• SESAR Definition Phase is on track