Single European Sky ATM Research

Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) is the name given to the collaborative project that is intended to completely overhaul the European airspace and its Air Traffic Management (ATM).

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Project

The SESAR project is composed of three phases [1]:

SESAR’s target concept relies on a number of new key features:

The SESAR project has a parallel in the NextGen project within the United States.

History

In the 20th century, contrary to the United States, Europe did not have a single sky — i.e., one in which air navigation is managed at the European level. Furthermore, European airspace is among the busiest in the world with over 33,000 flights on busy days and airport density in Europe is very high. This makes air traffic control even more complex. The EU Single European Sky initiative was instigated to overcome this fragmentation and capacity limitation by structuring airspace and air navigation services at a pan-European level. To prepare for future capacity, etc., the SESAR programme was initiated in 2004 (as a continuation of the Eurocontrol project SESAME). In June 2010, European and American authorities reached a preliminary agreement on interoperability between their future air traffic management systems, SESAR and NextGen.[3]

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