scholarly journals Assessment of Single European Sky Implementation in the Functional Airspace Block Central Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 643-655
Author(s):  
Tomislav Mihetec ◽  
Andrija Vidović ◽  
Zvonimir Rezo
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Block Level ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Navigation Service ◽  
Collaborative Implementation ◽  
Regional Grouping

Implementation of Air Traffic Management (ATM) MasterPlan-defined projects represents a prerequisite for thesuccessful implementation of the Single European Sky initiativedefined by the European Commission in 2004. Theimplementation of ATM-related projects is currently under the responsibility of the Single European Sky Research Programme Deployment Manager. While the definition of projects is being performed at the European Network level, theimplementation is performed through sub-regional grouping of Air Navigation Service Providers in a form of Functional Airspace Blocks. This paper analyses the level of implementation of ATM-related projects in the Functional Airspace Block Central Europe and their relation to other Functional Airspace Blocks defined in Europe. From this paper it is obvious that even though the planning of Single European Sky projects is based on the collaborative implementation of Functional Airspace Block level, the real implementation is fragmented and based on national levels.

Efficiency losses through fragmentation? Scale effects in European ANS provision

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-289
Author(s):  
Thomas Standfuss ◽  
Frank Fichert ◽  
Michael Schultz ◽  
Petros Stratis
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Scale Effects ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Navigation Service ◽  
The Relationship

Fragmentation has been suspected of contributing to inefficiencies in the European Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. Heterogeneities between providers may contain multiple aspects, such as airspace structure, staff rostering, or systems used for flow management. Applying the scientific approach of data envelopment analysis, this article provides a new outlook on the relationship between airspace fragmentation and efficiency in the admittedly complex and highly dynamic environment of European ATM. We show that there are airspaces that might benefit from economies of scale, but that there is a tipping point where diseconomies of scale occur. Subsequently, the current approach of functional airspace blocks might inhere inefficiencies for some air navigation service providers.

scholarly journals Research of information space and information flows of air navigation service providers

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Chernysh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Telecommunication Systems ◽  
Traffic Management System ◽  
Navigation Service

The threat to information security for the air navigation service providers represents a potential violation of information security of the information infrastructure elements in the air traffic management system such as communications, navigation and surveillance equipment, and the information and telecommunication systems. Typically, a threat results from the presence of vulnerable components in the protection of information technology as part of air navigation service providers activity. Generally, threats to information and communication systems include equipment failure, environmental destruction, human or machine errors, and targeted attacks, which are often complex, well-organized, and well-funded. Taking into account, information and telecommunication systems of air navigation service providers are critical resource that must be protected from external and internal threats. Information and telecommunication systems of air navigation services providers are a combination of information and telecommunication systems, in the process of processing air navigation information act as a whole. The realization of information security threats in information and telecommunication systems may adversely affect the provision of safety and air traffic management security. As a result of information security threats realization, incidents or accidents in the air traffic management system can be occurred. The paper proposes functional models of information space and information flows in the provision of air navigation service. The developed models are recommended for use in the process of security risk management in air traffic management within the new generation risk management system, as a necessary part of air navigation service provider integrated management system.

Effects of fragmentation on route charges

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-304
Author(s):  
Goran Pavlović ◽  
Frank Fichert
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Traffic Operations ◽  
Charging System ◽  
Navigation Service ◽  
Fuel Consumption And Emissions ◽  
Pair Level ◽  
Additional Fuel

The European Air Traffic Management (ATM) system is highly fragmented. It consists of 37 air navigation service providers (ANSPs) whose areas of responsibility are, in most cases, limited to national borders. ATM fragmentation impacts air traffic operations in Europe in several ways. One of them is reflected through the current route charging system, which is designed and adapted to the fragmented ATM system to recover air navigation service provision costs at the level of individual ANSPs. Differences in unit rates have led to the phenomenon of aircraft taking detours around expensive charging zones, resulting in additional fuel consumption and emissions, as well as traffic shifts caused by varying unit rates. In this article, we analyze the differences in the unit rates across Europe and their evolution over the past few years. The main focus of the article is the analysis of the route charge variability on an airport-pair level, measured by an airport-pair variability indicator, which we suggest as a metric. We show the route charge variability for different flight distances, geographic areas, and flight directions, and we also identify airport pairs with the highest route charge variability. Finally, we discuss selected alternatives to the current route charging system, such as the uniform charge method and different approaches to airport-pair charging.

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN POLISH AIRSPACE

2019 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Assoc. Prof. Telesfor Marek Markiewicz, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Parallel Implementation ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Charging System ◽  
Air Navigation Services ◽  
Navigation Service ◽  
High Level

The article discusses selected provisions of EU aviation law concerning economic issues of air traffic management. This process in European airspace is carried out by air navigation service providers, which, unlike airport operators and air carriers, have a monopolistic position and do not operate under market conditions. Consequently, the lack of competition between air navigation service providers replaces the common charging system for airspace users established by European Union law. In order to increase the cost-effectiveness of the services provided while maintaining a high level of safety of air operations, the navigation charges system was linked to the parallel implementation of the Single European Sky performance scheme for air navigation services in 2010. In 2019, the rules governing both systems were consolidated into a single legal act. The study also looks at the basic indicators of economic efficiency of air traffic management based on the example of the Polish Air Navigation Agency.

Safety Culture and Safety-Relevant Behavior in Air Traffic Management

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Schwarz ◽  
K. Wolfgang Kallus
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Psychometric Validation ◽  
Safety Attitudes ◽  
Culture Development

Since 2010, air navigation service providers have been mandated to implement a positive and proactive safety culture based on shared beliefs, assumptions, and values regarding safety. This mandate raised the need to develop and validate a concept and tools to assess the level of safety culture in organizations. An initial set of 40 safety culture questions based on eight themes underwent psychometric validation. Principal component analysis was applied to data from 282 air traffic management staff, producing a five-factor model of informed culture, reporting and learning culture, just culture, and flexible culture, as well as management’s safety attitudes. This five-factor solution was validated across two different occupational groups and assessment dates (construct validity). Criterion validity was partly achieved by predicting safety-relevant behavior on the job through three out of five safety culture scores. Results indicated a nonlinear relationship with safety culture scales. Overall the proposed concept proved reliable and valid with respect to safety culture development, providing a robust foundation for managers, safety experts, and operational and safety researchers to measure and further improve the level of safety culture within the air traffic management context.

scholarly journals Space Traffic Management (STM) – Legal Aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Polkowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
International Civil Aviation Organization ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Security Regulations ◽  
Space Activities

Space Traffic Management (STM) is a new concept referring to space activities. The highest priority is the safety and security of outer space and all conducted operations. There is no definition of STM. There is an urgent need to regulate STM providing safety and security regulations at the international, regional, and national levels. Because there is no STM definition, the regulator might use the example of existing regulations of the International Civil Aviation Organization on Air Traffic Management (ATM). European EUSST is a good example of being a “precursor” of STM. However, many questions are still open regarding specific regulations needed to create an STM system, such as at which level they should be made: globally, regionally, or nationally.

scholarly journals 4D-Trajectory Air Traffic Management: Are There ‘Killer Apps’? – Part 2

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brooker
Keyword(s):  
Airline Industry ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Fuel Efficiency ◽  
Radar Data ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Transportation Demand ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Trajectory System

The USA and Europe are developing plans – NextGen and SESAR – to transform the processes of Air Traffic Management (ATM). These will improve safety and efficiency, and match predicted increases in air transportation demand. They use advanced networking technology updated with information from satellite navigation and digital non-voice communication. The strategic goal, envisaged for 15–20 years hence, is a new ATM paradigm. Aircraft would fly on Four-Dimensional (4D) trajectories, incorporating altitude, position, time, and other aircraft positions and vectors. This vision would involve extremely large investments from the airline industry and ATM service providers. Thus, development priorities need to be based on sound business cases. But will these necessarily lead to the strategic vision of a 4D-trajectory system? Will the changes in practice be limited to a series of short and medium term operational improvements rather than strategic improvements? So, are there ‘Killer Apps’ for 4D-trajectory ATM? ‘Killer App(lication)s’ is jargon for innovations so valuable that they prove the core value of some larger technology. Killer Apps generate high degrees of stakeholder technical and financial cooperation. Ironically, most past ATM Killer Apps have improved safety, e.g., modern radar data processing led to collision avoidance systems. The analysis here attempts to identify and then size potential 4D-trajectory ATM Killer Apps. The evidence for Killer Apps has to pass key tests. Killer Apps obviously have to offer enormous benefits to stakeholders in the context of the potential costs. The bulk of these benefits must not be obtainable through technologically ‘cut down’ non−4D-trajectory versions. Part 1 of this paper (Brooker, 2012a) sets out the framework for investigating these questions. Part 2 examines potential Killer Apps derived from improvements in Fuel Efficiency, Capacity and Cost. An abbreviated version of this paper was first presented at the European Navigation Conference (ENC 2011), London in November 2011.

Analysis of cost-effectiveness in the provision of air navigation services at functional air blocks

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-318
Author(s):  
Alberto Ansuategi ◽  
Ibon Galarraga ◽  
Luis Orea ◽  
Thomas Standfuss
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Navigation Service ◽  
The Cost

The Single European Sky (SES) legislation is intended to have a major impact on the fragmentation in the European Air Traffic Management and Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ATM/CNS) system. A fundamental aspect of the SES initiative is functional airspace blocks (FABs), which have the goal of reducing the inefficiencies—in terms of safety, capacity, and cost—that result from the fragmentation of European airspace. FABs are seen as an explicit bottom-up first step toward the ultimate integration of European airspace. In this article, we focus on the analysis of the evolution of the cost-effectiveness in the provision of ATM/CNS services at FABs. We proceed in two stages. First, we develop a theoretical framework that allows us to decompose the change in cost-effectiveness of FABs into its basic sources. Second, we use stochastic frontier analysis techniques to estimate the cost equations and decompose the change in the cost-effectiveness of the nine European FABs into several components. Our analysis sheds light on (1) the drivers of changes in the air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and FABs cost-effectiveness from 2006 to 2016, (2) the role that FABs play in enhancing cooperation between ANSPs to obtain operational efficiency gains, and (3) the existence of economies of scale in the European ATM/CNS service provision.

scholarly journals Hierarchical Bayesian Models to Estimate the Number of Losses of Separation between Aircraft in Flight

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1600
Author(s):  
Rosa María Arnaldo Valdés ◽  
Victor Fernando Gómez Comendador
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Hierarchical Bayesian ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Inference Models ◽  
The Common ◽  
Hierarchical Bayesian Inference ◽  
Navigation Service

Air transport is considered to be the safest mode of mass transportation. Air traffic management (ATM) systems constitute one of the fundamental pillars that contribute to these high levels of safety. In this paper we wish to answer two questions: (i) What is the underlying safety level of ATM systems in Europe? and (ii) What is the dispersion, that is, how far does each ATM service provider deviate from this underlying safety level? To do this, we develop four hierarchical Bayesian inference models that allow us to infer and predict the common rate of occurrence of SMIs, as well as the specific rates of occurrence for each air navigation service provider (ANSP). This study shows the usefulness of hierarchical structures when it comes to obtaining parameters that enable risk to be quantified effectively. The models developed have been found to be useful in explaining and predicting the safety performance of 29 European ATM systems with common regulations and work procedures, but with different circumstances and numbers of aircraft, each managing traffic of differing complexity.

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