ATM knowledge network

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ATM knowledge network

• Presentation to Knowledge Network Community
  meeting
• 23 June 2006

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ATM knowledge network phase 2 project objectives

• Build business academic partnerships in the
  SEEDA region
• Outputs
• the main performance indicator is the number of
  collaborations achieved
• Outcomes
• the collaborations result in new bids to the DTI
  and EC Framework VII
• innovation leads to wealth creation

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Air traffic control in a nutshell!

• An air traffic controller
• Sectors
• Air traffic control centres

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European ATM industry dimensions

• 8.9 million flights a year, total distance flown
  7,047 million km
• Costs 6B
• 54,339 staff directly involved in industry

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Project strategy

• Focus on building collaborations
• Identify the strategic directions of the ATM
  industry
• Identify capabilities of the UK ATM sector
• industrials
• innovative SMEs
• research organisations - the knowledge base
• Identify the possible commercialisation paths
• Wealth creation for UK plc
• strategic direction x capability x
  commercialisation paths

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Strategic directions enroute

• An initial poll of opinions which will be extended

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UK capabilities

• Work in progress
• aim to capture size of organisations in terms of
  revenue or staff working in ATM
• best guess order of magnitude civil ATM market

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Location of UK ATM organisations
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European total en-route ATM investment
Replacement costs for en-route system 10bn
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UK commercialisation strategy

• Various strands
• SEEDA FAC ATM steering group
• DTI steering group
• DfT SESAR steering group
• Leading to
• knowledge networks
• supported RD (EFAS and Vantage)

• Sources of RD support
• Government (ESRC, DTI, RDAs)
• ANSP investment
• Supplier investment
• Eurocontrol Experimental Centre
• Framework VII
• SESAR Joint Undertaking

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Next steps

• Series of RD focused meetings on
• Airborne side of future ATM concepts
• Airport side of future ATM concepts
• Consolidating and sustaining the UK ATM knowledge
  base
• Initiating ATM RD collaborations for 2007 RD
  calls