R&D challenge

• Ensuring we can operate a dynamic and flexible airspace to meet future traffic demands.
• Understand the role that AI, automation, and autonomous systems have in the future of ATM, to identify and harness the benefits they offer.
• Influence the development of regulatory frameworks and technical standards that promote the adoption of automation technologies whilst ensuring safety and security within the airspace.
• Enable collaborative decision making between airlines, other Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP), airports and other stakeholders, to optimise airspace efficiency.

• Develop, test and validate future concepts that exploit the latest technologies.
• Develop the next generation of tools for controllers to support them to deliver future operational improvements, maximise network capacity, minimise flight delay and safely optimise efficiency.
• Describe a synergy between human expertise and machine capabilities to harness the collective strengths of both for optimal performance.
• Describe a future where all aircraft and ground systems seamlessly interact through a highly automated and interoperable digital exchange model to achieve a seamless, efficiently coordinated and resilient ATM service.
• Identify and address the regulatory challenges to the adoption of advanced automation and greater cooperation across ATM.

Research & Development Challenges

Six R&D challenges to transform UK Air Traffic Management

This report sets out the six key challenges facing the industry today, to drive progress and innovation in Air Traffic Management (ATM).

It is also an invitation to organisations (in industry, academia or other) to partner with us in shaping our future skies, focusing on: sustainability, the role of people, and responding to the rapid pace of technology change.

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