EMERTA - Safety Assessments for Air Traffic Control
Overview
Background & policy context:
New technological developments addressing the safety requirements of the European Air Traffic Management System (EATMS) are emerging that have to be assessed. The focus is on two major technological domains: Next Generation Satellite Systems (NGSS), and Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) technology and the related Airborne Separation Assurance System (ASAS) concept.
The selection of specific technologies for further in-depth research is inevitable with respect to the broad range of new solutions becoming available in the field of communications, navigation and surveillance. The chosen domains represent key enabling technologies that are considered to support several applications.
Objectives:
EMERTA aimed to establish the feasibility of using emerging NGSS services in their existing form to meet Air Traffic Service (ATS) and Airline Operation Centre (AOC) requirements. This included the definition of a European-level NGSS demonstration/validation project.
The main objectives of EMERTA were to:
- support a European input to international standardisation activities in such forums as ICAO and RTCA/EUROCAE;
- help specify requirements for a second generation of Low/Medium Earth Orbit (LEO/MEO) satellite systems and services, for deployment beyond the year 2005;
- assess the feasibility of the early introduction, in the European ATM environment, of one or more selected ADS-B/ASAS applications, paying particular attention to safety and transition aspects;
- develop initial ideas and guidelines on how to deploy ADS-B in Europe, in the context of the ASAS concept, in terms of the potential requirement for reserved airspace and how best to deal with a mixed aircraft population.
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