ABEAM - Across Border Effects of Air Traffic Management
Overview
Background & policy context:
In the context of the ECARDA framework (European Coherent Approach for RTD in Air Traffic Management), EUROCONTROL the organisation of 28 member states committed to the safety of air navigation is developing future concepts for ATM (Air Traffic Management) implementation in Europe from the year 2005. This has highlighted the need to assess the interfaces to neighbouring air traffic regions, since compatibility of different ATM systems is essential to improve the safety, capacity, reliability and quality of air transport.
Objectives:
ABEAM aimed to assess interface effects for the future EATMS (European Air Traffic Management System) implementation area and to identify possible technical and operational solutions to any problem discovered.
The main objectives of ABEAM were:
- to make recommendations on how to mitigate interface effects at the borders of the ECAC (European Civil Aviation Conference) area when applying the Target Operational Concept of EATMS;
- to identify problems related to the traffic exchange between ICAO/EUR (International Civil Aviation Organisation/Europe) and adjacent regions;
- to address the verification of the consistency, between EATMS concepts and ICAO regional plans.
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