AVENUE - Validation of the European Air Traffic Management System (EATMS)
Overview
Background & policy context:
The predicted growth in air traffic calls for more efficient use of
existing capacity in the air transport system. This is a key goal of the
European Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. However, there wasn’t a wide
consensus within the ATM community on which future concepts, functions and
systems could best improve air transport capacity, efficiency and safety.
To speed up the definition and the introduction of the next generation
European ATM system, the key ATM players had to develop a more detailed
common understanding of issues and solutions, a definition of common
requirements and a joint commitment to development plans for validation
activities.
Objectives:
The AVENUE project aimed to build the basis of the validation platform of the future European Air Traffic Management System (EATMS), starting from previously validated inputs from the Commission, Eurocontrol and national research projects throughout Europe. In particular, the main objectives of the project were:
- The provision of the system architecture of a validation platform capable of supporting the large-scale demonstration and validation initiatives of the EATMS;
- The development of the first instance of that platform to test its architecture and allow early validation exercises;
- To obtain a wide consensus in the architecture definition and platform development within the ATM Community.
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