SAT-RDMP - Small Air Transport - Roadmap
Overview
Background & policy context:
The Small Air Transport (SAT) project focuses on the use of small airplanes. It provides an affordable, accessible, energy effective component of the Air Transport System. It fills the niche between Surface and Scheduled Air Transport. This future SAT system will widen the mode choice of transport. It will create access to communities in less travel time, through the use of small aircraft served by small airports.
Objectives:
The goal of the project is to contribute to an improved understanding of the role that small-size aircraft, operating on scheduled or non-scheduled flights, can play as a component of the Air Transport System in order to satisfy the transport needs in regions where transport networks are underdeveloped.
Methodology:
Main issues of the SAT-RDMP project proposal are:
- Definition of a common vision of the small aircraft transport system for inter-regional mobility through the identification of the corresponding requirements. The requirements will identify the technology needs and regulatory issues to be addressed;
- Definition of a business case compliant to the identified requirements which describes the relations among all the system components;
- Assessment of current capabilities versus the ATS demand, collection of previous results and involvement of the stakeholders in Europe (manufacturers, research establishment, EASA, airspace users, infrastructure providers, airport managers, small aircraft service providers);
- Definition of a roadmap to fill the technology gaps, regulatory gaps and/or operative gaps in order to fulfil the requirements, considering current capabilities;
- Identification of dissemination actions and establishment of a network of stakeholders;
- Assessment of risks and benefits of the identified new system concept.
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