PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM A EUROPEAN SAFETY R & D PROGRAM

Eurocontrol is the Agency concerned with the safety of air navigation in European airspace. It works with most European countries to help improve Air Traffic Management (ATM) and harmonize best practices, including those relating to safety. The research arm of Eurocontrol is based in its Experimental Centre (the EEC) near Bretigny, South of Paris, where future ATM concepts, including new airspace designs and tools to help augment controller performance and ATM efficiency, are explored. Research there is coordinated with Eurocontrol Headquarters (EHQ) in Brussels, as well as the Eurocontrol training Institute in Luxembourg, and Eurocontrol’s operational ATM centre in Maastricht.