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EUROCONTROL authors receive two best paper awards at the 2009 USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar
24 Jul 2009

EUROCONTROL authors received two Best Paper Awards during the eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, which took place from 29 June to 2 July 2009 in Napa, California (USA).

The awards are:
1. for the EUROCONTROL/FAA Action Plan 16 paper “Lateral Intent Error’s Impact on Aircraft Prediction”; and
2. for the EUROCONTROL paper “A Systems-engineering Approach to Assessing the Safety of the SESAR Operational Concept”.

Jointly with the FAA, EUROCONTROL also received the Seminar's Best Paper Award for the EUROCONTROL/FAA Action Plan 16.

The main objective of this ATM2009 conference was to further the science on ATM necessary to achieve a harmonized global air traffic management (ATM) system, in particular with the future advent of SESAR and NextGen. It was a continuation of seminars held since 1997 in both Europe and the USA.

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Best Paper Awards for two EUROCONTROL/FAA Action Plan 16 papers

Two of the 13 sessions were dedicated to presentations promoting “Innovative Methods for Safety Assessment” and advances in “Trajectory and Queue Management”. In both sessions the award for the Best Paper was won by EUROCONTROL authors.

The EUROCONTROL/FAA Action Plan 16, deals with Common Trajectory Prediction Capability. It is chaired by Ibrahim Bayraktutar from EUROCONTROL and Steve Green from NASA, and contributed to the seminar with two papers which received awards:

1. Joel Klooster and Ana Del Amo from GE Aviation, together with Patrick Manzi from LFV, are the authors of the paper "Controlled Time of Arrival Flight Trials Results and Analysis". The paper, which is part of the “Continuous Descent Approaches” theme, is about the EUROCONTROL/CASSIS project which aims to develop Concept of Operations for us of Time-of-Arrival Control in the terminal area, with the understanding that reducing or replacing low level vectroing and holding with with enroute delay through the use of time constraints is a key component in both NextGen and SESAR. Recommendations for future developments and considerations for larger scale implementation are also discussed. Both Mr Klooster and Ms Del Amo are members of AP16 core team.

2. Ibrahim Bayraktutar, EUROCONTROL ATC Operations and Systems, is the co-author of the paper "Lateral Intent Error’s Impact on Aircraft Prediction" which was presented by another co-author Mike Paglione from FAA. The other co-authors were Greg McDonald and Jesper Broonsvoort from Airservices Australia. The paper, which is part of the “Trajectory and Queue Management” theme, reports on a study that examines the lateral deviations from the automation’s known horizontal route of flight to the actual aircraft position where the errors are due to the typical navigation and surveillance errors, as well as the larger atypical errors that are mainly caused by purposeful changes in the route of flight that are not updated. The analysis illustrates the direct impact these errors have on safety critical separation management functions. It was concluded that airborne derived data via Automatic Dependent Surveillance Contract reports offer a major opportunity to improve the ground-based automation functions. Authors are members of AP16 core team.

Best Paper Award on Innovative Methods for Safety Assessments

 EUROCONTROL best paper author Eric Perrin with colleagues and partners at the 2009 ATM R&D Seminar
  Eric Perrin (EUROCONTROL), Bernard Miaillier (EUROCONTROL), Vicki Cox (FAA)
Eric Perrin, EUROCONTROL Performance&Methods/Safety, presented "A Systems-engineering Approach to Assessing the Safety of the SESAR Operational Concept". Co-authors of the paper were Derek Fowler and Ron Pierce. The paper explained why a new approach, both broader and more rigorous than that traditionally followed in ATM, is needed for the safety assessment of the major operational and technology changes that are planned for introduction into European ATM over the period up to 2020 and beyond. It presented the theoretical basis for what is a “systems-engineering approach” and describes how that is being applied to the preliminary work on the safety assessment of the SESAR Operational Concept.

The award is an acknowledgement of the work on improving safety methodologies that EUROCONTROL has been doing over the past few years in partnership with our stakeholders as well as of the further need for research to achieve common safety goals in particular within the framework of SESAR and NextGen.