European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Eurocontrol European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme

Key Technological Solutions from the Sesar Programme to Improve Air Traffic Safety

The dynamic development of the air transport market has led to a significant increase in air traffic in a highly fragmented and relatively small European airspace. This situation could, in the near future, render the currently functioning European air traffic management (ATM) system obsolete and incapable of providing the high safety standards demanded by the ICAO and Eurocontrol. Recognizing t...

European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Eurocontrol Experimental Centre

Contingency Plans for Air Traffic Management

We present two heuristics based on constraint technology that solve the problem of generating air traffic management contingency plans, which are used in the case of a catastrophic infrastructure failure within EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. Of the heuristics presented, one is based on constraintbased local search and tabu search, and the other one is a...

European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Performance Review Unit Eurocontrol Experimental Centre

The study has been performed by the Performance Review Unit with the assistance of the EEC at Brétigny. The subject of this study is to develop a framework for the cost benchmarking of the European en-route Air Navigation Services (ANS). This document has been collated by mechanical means. Should there be missing pages, please report to: EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre Publications Office Centr...

Scenarios: Heuristics for action

This paper present a heuristic model to ease scenario construction and usage in interaction design processes. We argue that the role of scenarios varies: I) along the design process, thus scenario building and usage have to be attuned to the particular goal of the design phase; II) in respect to the people that will use them (e.g., design team, client, user), thereby scenarios have to suit in s...