ASAS-TN - Airborne Separation Assistance System Thematic Network
Overview
Background & policy context:
ASAS-TN is a stand-alone project, arising out of the ASAS work within the programme of Co-Operative Actions of R&D In EUROCONTROL (CARE-ASAS). It is organised within the work programme for Competitive and Sustainable Growth of the European Community, Key action 4, New Perspectives in Aeronautics, Target Platform 4, 'More Autonomous Aircraft in the Future Air Traffic Management System'.
Airborne Separation Assistance Systems (ASAS) is a new technique which, via airborne and/or ground surveillance, presents a flight crew with a traffic picture.
The flight crew may then use the information in a defined way to achieve some operational benefit. This use is defined as an ASAS application and may range from enhanced see and avoid to an aircraft managing its own separation.
Objectives:
The main objective of the ASAS Thematic Network is to accelerate the implementation of ASAS applications in European Airspace taking global applicability in order to increase airspace capacity and safety.
The main ASAS Thematic Network outputs consist in the sharing of the current knowledge on ASAS between all European stakeholders and in recommendations for future activities required to reach the operational use of ASAS applications.
It is expected that these results will be of use to guide future EC actions from 6th Framework RTD projects to shorter-term TEN-T pre-operational experimentations.
The expectation is also that the shared knowledge and the agreed upon recommendations will allow European industry to optimally plan and focus their new products development strategy.
Methodology:
The two-year project provides a series of workshops on key ASAS issues; a set of web-based discussion forums; work on ASAS research and development, standardisation and certification issues; and a document repository of ASAS related material.
Communication activities are performed by:
the creation of an Internet based set of moderated ASAS discussion forums;
a Web-based ASAS document repository;
three ASAS workshops;
a seminar and
the development of guidelines for the implementation of ASAS applications.
The main ASAS Thematic Network outputs consist in the sharing of the current knowledge on ASAS between all European stakeholders and in recommendations for future activities necessary to reach the operational use of ASAS applications.
The three ASAS-TN workshops are:
'ASAS Expected Operational Improvements', 28-30 April 2003, Rome.
'ASAS applications & Procedures', 6-8 October 2003, Stockholm.
'Required airborne and ground functions for ASAS', 19-21 April 2004, Toulouse.
The Final Project Seminar will be held on 11-13 October 2004.
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