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PROJECTS IN NUMBERS

Indicates the number of projects that are completed or ongoing, covering both the Digital European Sky and now completed SESAR 2020 research and innovation programmes.

FILTERING PROJECTS

The projects can be filtered according to the following:

Type of projects
Refers to the strand of research, i.e. exploratory research, industrial research and fast track, large scale demonstrator/Digital Sky Demonstrator

Stakeholders
Refers to the ATM stakeholders who will benefit from a project’s work, namely:

Benefits

Refers to the expected benefits that the project will deliver, namely:

	Increased cost efficiency	Refers to the costs associated with air navigation service provision
	Enhanced safety	Covers gate-to-gate traffic safety (in flight as well as during surface movement, i.e. taxi and on the runway).
	Improved predictability	Measured by the variability in the duration of the flight.
	Optimised capacity	Covers capacity at airports, terminal manoeuvring areas and en-route airspace.
	Reduced fuel consumption and emissions	refers to the average reduction in fuel consumption per flight in Europe (at the level of European Civil Aviation Conference).

Flagship

Projects in the Digital European Sky research and innovation programme are categorised according to the following nine flagships:

	Connected and automated ATM The future ATM system will deliver hyper connectivity between all stakeholders (vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure) via high bandwidth, low latency fixed and mobile networks. Highly automated systems with numerous actors will interact with each other seamlessly, making the system scalable and even safer than today.
	Air-ground integration and autonomy The progressive move towards autonomous flying enabled by self-piloting technologies requires a closer integration between vehicle and infrastructure capabilities so that the infrastructure can act as a digital twin of the aircraft.
	Capacity-on-demand and dynamic airspace Technology will enable the dynamic reconfiguration and the activation of cross-border capacity-on-demand services to maintain smooth traffic services at busy times.
	U-space and urban air mobility A digitally native traffic management system will ensure the safe and secure integration of drones in the airspace especially in urban areas, taking into account ew and existing air vehicles and autonomous operations. One of the most challenging use cases from U-space will be to enable urban air mobility, which is expected to advance autonomous technologies in a number of areas.
	Virtualisation and cyber-secure data sharing Service provision will be decoupled from the physical infrastructure, enabling air traffic and data service providers, irrespective of national borders, to plug in their operations where needed in a secure manner.
	Multimodality and passenger experience Considering ATM to be an integrated part of an intermodal transport system will make it possible to share data between modes and to collaborate better to optimise the performance of both the overall transport system and the door-to-door journey.
	Aviation green deal Europe should be the world’s most environmentally-friendly continent to fly. This requires putting in place solutions to enable aircraft to fly their optimum fuel-efficient 4D trajectory gate-to-gate, and integrating next generation aircraft that will be cleaner and quieter.
	Artificial intelligence (AI) for aviation Tomorrow's aviation infrastructure will be more data-intensive. Thanks to the pplication of machine learning, deep learning and big data analytics, we will be able to design an ATM system that is smarter and safer by constantly analysing and learning from the ATM environment.
	Civil/Military interoperability and coordination Dual-use technologies such as those for communications, navigation and surveillance, and other solutions that allow real-time exchange of trajectory information will improve the predictability of military operations and overall network capacity.

Status

Participants

Refers to those organisations participating in the projects, also known as beneficiaries, .

SESAR programme

Indicates whether a project was active under SESAR 2020 or the Digital European Sky research and innovation programme.