En-route air traffic is challenging to manage due to fast-changing conditions brought about by traffic density, complex routes, weather and many other factors.  A dynamic approach is needed to air traffic flow management in order balance the traffic with demand when and where it is needed.
The project aims to enhance current short-term ATFCM measures (STAMs) mechanisms with “capacity-on-demand” measures at operational level, paving the way to new airspace capacity management mechanism considering the constant increment on traffic demand through the pairwise adjacent-sector balancing mechanism to longer adjacent-sector chains.