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CATS - Contract-based Air Transportation System |
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The CATS project was selected during the 4th call of the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme (FP6). It started at the end of 2007 and will last for three years.
The strategic objectives addressed through this project are to propose solutions to cope with the traffic growth and to improve the efficiency of the European air transportation system (ATS). Two ACARE/SRA.2’s high-level target concepts (HLTCs), namely "Highly Customer-orientated ATS" and "Highly Time-efficient ATS", are specifically addressed.
The CATS project is based on the "arriving on schedule" concept while improving efficiency and synergy between all ATM actors through the Contract of Objectives.
- CATS contracts will provide well-defined objectives for each actor involved on a flight.
- CATS objectives represent the commitment of each actor for delivering the aircraft inside temporal and spatial intervals. Each actor commits himself/herself and is accountable for their achievement.
- CATS objectives are situated on the transfer of responsibility areas, all actors being accountable for their own achievements.
- CATS objectives are negotiated based on schedule integrity at destination, taking into account all the actors’ constraints.
- CATS contracts will ensure the operational continuity of the flight. ATCOs are now able to visualize, on their own working position, the final objective, instead of managing sectors that they are responsible for without considering global ATM optimization.
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More information about CATS... |
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You can also watch the CATS project video.
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The CATS project: collaboration, schedule integrity, and accountability |
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CATS participated in the 9th Innovative Research Workshop |
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On 7th December 2010, the results of the three Human In the Loop assessments was presented during the 9th Innovative Research Exhibition, which took place from 7 - 11 December 2010 at the EEC in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France.
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CATS participated in the HCI-AERO 2010 Conference |
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On 3 November 2010, the CATS paper “Result of the evaluation of crew-ground integration with Contract-of-Objectives “ was presented during the HCI-AERO 2010 conference, which took place from 3 - 5 November 2010 at Cape Canaveral USA.
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CATS Final User Forum took place on 20 October 2010 |
CATS Final User Forum took place in French Aviation Museum (Le Bourget) on 20 October 2010:
The CATS project presented the results obtained towards the different assessments.
Invitation:
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Invitation 2010 |
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All the presentations are available below:
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Project overview and concept |
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Target Windows modelling |
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Human In the Loop experiments results |
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Legal analysis |
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Benefits assessment |
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Risk and Safety Assessment |
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CATS HIL3 Experiment, from 14-19 June 2010 in Geneva |
The third and last validation session successfully took place from 14 to 19 June 2010 in Geneva, at the SkyGuide premises, involving participants from FRQ, AFC, ENAV, Zurich Airport, SkySoft, and the EEC
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The 2nd CATS Workshop took place in Geneva on 26 January 2010 |
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On 26 January 2010 , the second CATS workshop was successfully carried out at the SkyGuide premises.
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The invitation |
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The CATS Consortium presented the progress made toward the goal of achieving punctuality at destination, by assessing a possible practical implementation of the Business Trajectory, namely the Contract of Objectives (CoO), on a joint simulation platform developed by SkySoft ATM, mixing four controllers positions and two flight simulators positions.
All the presentations are available below.
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Project overview and work plan |
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Contract of Objectives concept |
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Target Windows modelling |
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Safety and Target Windows Modelling |
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The platform |
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Benefit assessment |
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Regulatory framework |
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Operational assessment |
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CATS participated in the 8th Innovative Research Workshop exhibition |
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The CATS platform, developed by SkySoft, was presented during the 8th Innovative Research Exhibition, which took place from 1 - 3 December 2009 at the EEC in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France.
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CATS HIL2 Experiment, from 19-30 October 2009 in Geneva |
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The second validation session, ground-board interfaces, successfully took place from 19-30 October 2009 in Geneva, at the SkyGuide premises, involving participants from AFC, ENAV, SkySoft, and the EEC.
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The press release |
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The poster |
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The CATS project at the 7th Innovative Research Workshop and Exhibition, EEC, 2-4 December 2008 |
On 4 December 2008, the first CATS workshop was successfully carried out at the EEC (in a parallel track of the 7th Innovative Research Workshop and Exhibition).
This workshop was well attended and, after an interesting overview of the Single European Sky 2 initiatives and a SESAR presentation focused on the business trajectory management, the CATS consortium presented the CATS concept, the Target Windows calculation method, the hypothesis and initial results of the first experiment,
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The workshop agenda |
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The list of attendees |
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The second package of the Single European Sky and SESAR |
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A brief view of the "business trajectory" |
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The CATS concept and work plan |
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The CATS target window calculation |
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The CATS operational assessment |
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For more information, please visit the workshop web site or contact Sandrine Guibert:
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http://inoworkshop.eurocontrol.fr |
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Sandrine Guibert |
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The CATS project at the ATC GLOBAL Exhibition, Amsterdam, 11-13 March 2008 |
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The CATS project was presented at the ATC GLOBAL 2008 Exhibition.
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The CATS project at the ATC Maastricht Exhibition, 13-15 February 2007 |
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The CATS project, presented by Sandrine Guibert and Laurent Guichard on the NeoMetSys booth, was present at the 17th edition of the ATC Maastricht Exhibition, which took place on 13-15 February 2007.
The ATC Maastricht exhibition was a good opportunity to communicate to the ATM community on this future project, Contract-based Air Transportation System, to collect the feedback of experts and interested people, to see if the concept is going the right way, and to have interesting exchanges between ATM experts. The concept was presented in a funny way, by means of a croquet game. The idea was to attract people even though we have no results nor a demonstrator because the project has not started yet. This was a good gamble!; people from ANSPs, aviation authorities, and other experts were interested in it.
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The CATS project started officially ! |
CATS (Contract-based Air Transportation System) was launched successfully on 6 November 2007 in Vienna.
The CATS project is based on the "arriving on schedule" concept while improving efficiency and synergy between all ATM actors through Contract of Objectives. These foundations are fully in line with SESAR concept.
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The EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre together with Frequentis (co-ordinator), SkySoft-ATM, Air France Consulting, ENAV, UNIQUE , the Universities of Trieste, Leiden and Zurich are working together to assess the impact of this Contract of Objectives. This will be achieved by :
- defining the interfaces between various actors and operators :
- ATCO and ATCO in airborne cycle
- ATCO and aircrew in airborne cycle
- Airport, airline, and ANSP during the renegotiation process
- assessing, through human-in-the-loop experiments, the operational acceptability and the technical feasibility ;
- evaluating the impact of this contract in terms of human factors issues, safety and operators’ workload ;
- evaluating the benefits and the legal implications.
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| CATS State of the Art
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Contains the findings from a literature review concerning operational concepts in ATM/ATC and the technologies available.
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Released: 13/12/2007
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Edition: 1.2
External code: Report D1.1
Author: CATS consortium
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| CATS Exploitation and Dissemination Plan
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This document presents all the planned actions related to communication on the CATS project and the way to achieve successful dissemination.
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Released: 29/10/2010
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Edition: 4.0
External code: Report D3.3.1
Author: CATS Consortium
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| CATS Validation Strategy
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Contains the plan to conduct the investigations to validate the CATS hypothesis.
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Released: 15/10/2010
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Edition: 5.0
External code: Report D1.3.1
Author: CATS consortium
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| CATS Concept of Operation
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This document provides information about the CATS concept of operations.
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Released: 24/03/2010
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Edition: 2.0
External code: Report D1.2.2
Author: CATS Consortium
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| CATS HIL1 Primary Results Analysis
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This document presents the results of the first human-in-the-loop experiment, which was conducted as a first step of the operational assessment of the Contract of Objectives concept.
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Released: 12/03/2009
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Edition: 1.2
External code: Report D2.1.1
Author: CATS Consortium
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| CATS HIL2 Primary Results Analysis
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This document presents the results of the second human-in-the-loop experiment, which was conducted as a second step of the operational assessment of the Contract of Objectives concept.
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Released: 31/05/2010
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Edition: 2.0
External code: Report D2.1.2
Author: CATS Consortium
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| CATS HIL3 Primary Results Analysis
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This document presents the results of the third human-in-the-loop experiment, which was conducted as the final step of the operational assessment of the Contract of Objectives concept.
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Released: 30/09/2010
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Edition: 1.0
External code: Report D2.1.3
Author: CATS Consortium
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HCI-AERO 2010 - Crew ground integration |
7 - 11 December 2010 at the EEC in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
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