Description of the Project
The need for European airports to become more operationally efficient is fundamental as forecasts show that passenger numbers across the continent will rise an average of 3.3% per annum to reach 3.9 billion by 2036. The project will develop concepts, tools and procedures to increase the predictability and resilience of airport operations, improving the punctuality of flights in a safe and environmentally sustainable manner. The aim will be to improve airport/network integration for large and medium/regional airports, improve airport airside/landside integration, reduce the impact of MET aspects on airport operations, make further investigations about how environmental aspects could be monitored and managed in day-to-day airport operations.
This will be achieved through increasing the coordination between Airport and the Network, validating the concept of regional connected airports. On the airport side, the project will have a focus on the airport hypervision concept, and how airport operations could be better predicted with anticipated impact, managed in a pro-active way and synchronised in various situations. This includes the development of performance and role-based dashboards as well as what-if, prediction and impact assessment tools. Here data-driven airport operations management and digital technologies are required enablers, as connected, data-based, intelligent toolboxes supporting all airport stakeholders must be developed.
To ensure that full benefits are achieved and that the expected performance improvements are realised in the context of overall ATM Network, close coordination will take place with other projects, particularly those addressing network management, airport airside and runway throughput, enhanced arrivals and departures as well as the overall integration within the programme.
This project continues the activities previously developed in SESAR 1, where the initial bases of the concepts that continue evolving in SESAR 2020 were settled.
Industrial Partners
Indra's Role
Indra will participate in several pilots within the PJ04 project, which seeks to improve the integration of airports and the ATM network, optimizing communication regarding its operating plans, both for large, medium and regional airports. To do this, an increase in the predictability of operations will be sought through greater monitoring and integration of the ground (passengers and baggage) and air (flights) processes. All this will achieve a better performance of the airports and consequently, of the ATM network.
Indra will carry out validations with AENA, at the Palma de Mallorca airport, with PANSA, at the Gdansk airport and also with the Zurich airport.
Technologies used
The following solutions / technologies will be developed in the project:
- Airport Operation Control and Monitor System +
- Video analytics systems
- Artificial Intelligent – Generation of Predictive analytics Models
- B2B Integration Services with Eurocontrol
More information
This project, under reference nº H2020-874472, has been funded through the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission.
ONU Sustainable Development Goals:
