Technical, EcOnomical and OpeRational Assessment of an ATM Concept AcHievable from the year 2005

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THE NEED FOR TORCH

• Technical, EcOnomical and OpeRational Assessment
  of an ATM Concept AcHievable from the year 2005

2
Summary

• Current situation of ATM in Europe
• Forecasted Situation of Air Traffic in Europe
• Ongoing Activities to Find Candidate Solutions
• Pending Issues
• Gaps to be Addressed
• Conclusion

3
Current situation of ATM in Europe

• High density of traffic in the core area
• Fragmented ATC in the ECAC region
• 49 ATC Centres
• Various levels of functionality
• Many constraints
• Complex airspace structure
• National Boundaries
• Fixed routes structures
• Military areas

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Current Situation of ATM in Europe

• Many constraints (continued)
• Environmental (e.g. noise reduction)
• Airport Capacity
• Human Factors (e.g. time necessary to train)
• Consequences
• Important delays with a cost already
  unacceptable 8.400 M EUROS (IATA)

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Forecasted Situationof Air Traffic in Europe
(1/2)

• Important increase of the traffic demand
• 5 to 8 per year gt can double within 10 years
• Impact of this increase on safety
• One accident every week?
• Delays will become unbearable
• Increase of environmental constraints
• Airport capacity shortage

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Forecasted Situationof Air Traffic in Europe
(2/2)

• Open market
• Increasing competition between airlines
• Need for optimisation of the costs
• Urgent Needs Depends on the Local Situation
• Use Map to identify core area and peripheral areas

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Ongoing Activities to Find Candidate Solutions

• Existing work
• OCD
• ATM 2000
• Many Fragmented Solutions

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Pending Issues (1/2)

• Because of constraints due to
• Need for standards
• Time to market
• Aircraft retrofits
• Selection and training of operators to new
  operational concepts
• The operational concept of the OCD is not
  completely implementable before 2015
• The situation will become critical around 2010

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Pending Issues (2/2)

• Due to the huge investment required
• Need for a stepwise validation approach aiming at
  reducing risks
• Investment related decision makers need some
  confidence on expected benefits
• A consistent and useful concept required before
  launching costly implementations

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Gaps to be Addressed by TORCH

• Selection of ideas applicable in the 2005-2010
  timeframe based on the OCD ATM 2000
• Consolidation of these ideas into a consistent
  operational concept
• Assessment of its technical, operational, and
  socio-economical feasibility
• Preliminary identification of the expected
  operational and socio-economical benefits (or
  drawbacks)

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Conclusion

• SO THERE WAS A NEED FOR A PROJECT TO FILL THESE
  GAPS AND WHOSE OBJECTIVE WAS
• THE DELIVERY OF A VIABLE CONSOLIDATED
  OPERATIONAL CONCEPT FOR THE YEARS 2005 TO 2010
  COHERENT AND COMPLEMENTARY TO THE ATM 2000
  STRATEGY
• THIS PROJECT

TORCH