Primary Goal Is To Accelerate A-CDM Processes At Select European Airports

The EU will support with almost €4 million ($5.41 million) from the TEN-T Program, a project to support and accelerate Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) and Airspace Management (ASM) with a view of optimising resources at European airports and progressing towards an efficient and flexible use of airspace.

The aim of the project, which was selected for funding under the 2011 TEN-T Annual Call is twofold.

The first goal is to support and accelerate the implementation of A-CDM processes at 11 selected European airports. Eurocontrol, which is implementing the project, will also look beyond this first batch of airports with the target of deploying A-CDM in a number of other airports by 2014.

As a second activity, the project will support the acceleration of collaborative civil-military ASM solutions to ensure an optimal use of airspace. This will be achieved through the deployment by Eurocontrol of a new ASM coordination tool at the rate of four EU countries per year. A specific objective concerns the procurement of the related software and hardware in The Netherlands and in Romania, thereby allowing the flexible use of airspace.

The project will be managed by the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency and is set to be completed by the end of 2014.

(Deployment map provided by the European Commission)

FMI: Project Website