Europe’s next step in Total Airport Management research

Within the two solutions that spawn SESAR 2020’s four year project PJ.04 Total Airport Management, challenges of enhanced collaborative airport performance monitoring and management will be addressed and the work of the SESAR program continued. The solutions address concepts and enablers that provide monitoring and management capabilities to key decision making personal in an Airport Operations Control Center or similar decision making collaboration groups. The solutions, their assigned so-called operational improvement steps and their associated technical and operational enablers will progress through maturity levels, ensured by gate reviews, evaluating numerous validation objectives against evidences provided by validation exercises. The two solutions will define the de-facto standard of collaborative airport operations monitoring and management procedures, described in the key concept document Operational Service Environment Description. The work provides insight into the specific operational improvement steps and their associated enablers that will be developed within this project. From a top-down perspective, the operational daily life with the solutions’ results will be explained. The work will describe what the operational improvement steps of the two solutions will be about and how these will influence daily operational life for operational decision making actors in collaborative airport decision making environments. It will explain the work program that has been set for SESAR 2020’s project PJ.04 Total Airport Management.