Specialisms of our Centre:

• performance assessment
• economic analysis
• modelling and simulation
• pax centricity, mobility, multimodality (SESAR award)
• flight dynamics; flight prioritisation
• data management

Applied research – main funders:

• SESAR 3 and Clean Aviation, Horizon Europe
• EUROCONTROL, air navigation service providers, airlines
• with wide range of stakeholders, including airports, software/service providers, other research institutes

• incurred on the day of operations, not planned in advance
• e.g. aircraft waiting at-gate
• mostly marginal costs

• incurred in advance, often difficult to recover later (‘sunk’ cost)
• e.g. schedule buffer (‘opportunity’ cost) & route extension
• mostly unit costs

• ‘hard’ cost to airline
• ‘soft’ cost to airline
• internalised costs

Flight and passenger mobility model

• agent-based model
• describes main components of ATM system
• tracks individual flights and passengers
• multimodality and door-to-door estimation capabilities
• 1 day of operations at ECAC level (27k flights, 3M pax)
• open source

Event-driven simulator tracking main operational milestones:

• flight plan submission, push-back ready, push-back, etc.

Agents encapsulate roles with functionalities:

Airline Operating Centre

• fleet management
• tactical reassignment of passengers
• cost modelling

Flight

• flight plan adjustment
• trajectory simulation

• SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking Knowledge Transfer Network

• Bridge gap between industry and academia
• Investigate future ATM, including required skills
• Inspire and support next generation of aviation professionals in facing digital era
• For more information, see engagektn.eu

• Wiki:
  • interactive research map of European ATM
  • ATM concepts roadmap
  • research repository
  • European university programmes
  • job opportunities