PEACOCK is the name of the latest Digital Sky Demonstrator to receive funding to the tune of EUR 1.5 million from the Connecting Europe Facility, it was announced on 16 July.
The project was selected following a call issued in September 2023 by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). The demonstrators are a key tool to support the SESAR JU’s vision of delivering the Digital European Sky, matching the ambitions of “sustainable and smart mobility” and “Europe fit for the digital age” initiatives, and the EU Green Deal.
Led by Swedavia, the project will implement a dashboard to analyse and quantify the environmental impact (both noise and emissions) of landing, taxiing and take-off operations at airports around Europe. The aim is to trigger improvements to make these operations more sustainable.
Over 36 months, the demonstrator will focus on advanced collaborative decision-making processes within a total airport management context, and will specifically:
- Link the Network Manager with an additional 20 airports, including regional airports in Belgium, Czechia, France, Greece, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden;
- Implement a quasi-automatic turn-around milestones surveillance process, to increase the predictability of flight departure estimates and therefore time accuracy;
- Exchange departure planning information (DPI) messages and information on traffic flows within the air traffic management (ATM) network.
Digital Sky Demonstrators take place in live operational environments with the main objective to implement the technological solutions necessary to deliver the Digital European Sky. The demonstrators are part of an innovation pipeline designed to bridge the gap between applied/industrial research and deployment, and to accelerate market uptake. Critical to their success are the involvement of early movers, as well as a strong close connection with relevant standardisation and regulatory activities and bodies.
PEACOCK consortium: Swedavia (coordinator), Aéroports de Paris, Brussels Airport, Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport, , Eindhoven Airport, Fraport, Václav Havel Airport Prague, Wrocław Airport, Gdansk Airport.
More details coming soon!
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