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In 1999, the European Commission launched the Single European Sky (SES) programme to ensure that national airspaces grow together to create a more unified and efficient pan-European airspace. Together with the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium; NLR), the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is a member of the EU Single European Sky ATM (Air Traffic Management) research programme, known as SESAR 2020. The aim of SESAR 2020 is to develop new systems for the unification of European airspace and meet the challenges of increasing air traffic.

Using airspace more efficiently

Currently, the air traffic management system in Europe transports over 1.6 billion passengers on some 10 million flights every year. It is estimated that the number of flights will increase to 14.4 million by 2035. This represents an enormous challenge for today's air traffic management, in view of the partial fragmentation of European airspace and the number of parties involved in air transport. New procedures and technologies combined with closer collaboration at the European level offer a solution. They will be able to help with using European airspace more efficiently in the future, to handle the increase in air traffic and the requirements of all parties involved.

DLR brings key expertise as SESAR member

DLR conducts research into innovative approaches for a future European air traffic system; these include, for example, providing airspace that avoids the current division into sectors and remote monitoring of one or more small airports from a virtual tower. "As a member of the research programme, we contribute these new concepts for the air traffic management of the future," says Dirk Kügler, Director of the DLR Institute of Flight Guidance. As part of the AT-One Consortium, five research institutes at DLR are working with two divisions of NLR to form a European research alliance. "AT-One is an experienced European alliance involving two major research institutions and a unique simulation and flight testing infrastructure. As such, we represent a competent research partner in SESAR 2020," explains Kügler.

Ambitious goals

As part of SESAR 2020, various partners from almost every area of aviation are conducting research into application-orientated measures for a secure, low-emission, cost-effective air transport system in Europe. All relevant stakeholders are working together on this – air navigation services, airports, airlines, aircraft manufacturers, air navigation equipment manufacturers and research institutes. In this way, newly developed systems are due to be validated and tested for marketability. SESAR 2020 has a budget of 1.5 billion euro to do this.

SESAR Projects (Selection)
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AURA (SESAR PJ34-W3 ATM U-SPACE INTERFACE)


The objective of the SESAR Industrial Research project PJ34 AURA is to lay the foundations for the integration of the new entrants in current and future air traffic environment, developing the required concept of operations and validating U-space services information exchanges with Air Traffic Management systems.
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CORUS-XUAM


CORUS-XUAM is an EU project dedicated to implement Urban Air Mobility solutions within U-space by developing the necessary operational procedures and requirements considering safety, efficiency and social acceptability. A core element of the project are six demonstrations in different European countries.
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Digital Technologies for Tower (SESAR 2020 PJ05-W2 DTT)


SESAR Project DTT focusses firstly on the development of a remote-aerodrome air traffic service and secondly on the validation of innovative human-machine interface modes and related technologies in different airport towers.
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FALCO (SESAR 2020 PJ33-W3)


The SESAR project FALCO is investigating solutions for making air traffic management and controller deployment more flexible, efficient and responsive to changing traffic demand and conditions. The project will also trial spectrum-efficient data link connectivity and digital voice communications.
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HAAWAII (Highly Automated Air Traffic Controller Workstations with Artificial Intelligence Integration)


The HAAWAII project is working on a "listening" assistance system to better support air traffic controllers. In order to use this system with speech recognition at many airports at low cost, AI and especially machine learning is used.
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INVIRCAT (Investigate IFR RPAS control in airports and TMA)


The INVIRCAT project aims to provide a means for a safe and efficient integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems into the existing air traffic control procedures and infrastructures within terminal manoeuvring areas under instrument flight rules.
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PROSA Wave 2 (SESAR 2020 PJ10-W2)


The achievement of a uniform European airspace and the provision of even safer and simultaneously more affordable services for a constantly increasing number of airspace users is only possible through focused technical developments. The SESAR project PROSA W2 addresses this.
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SINOPTICA (Satellite-borne and In-situ Observations to Predict the Initiation of Convection for ATM)


The SINOPTICA project aims to exploit the untapped potential of assimilating remote sensing, as well as GNSS-derived datasets and in-situ weather-station data for the benefit of air traffic management operations.
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START (Stable and resilient ATM by integrating Robust airline operations into the network)


The EU-funded project aims to design, apply and verify optimised algorithms that will enable a robust ATM system not only for conventional air traffic but resilient in disrupted circumstances as well.
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URClearED (A Unified Integrated Remain Well Clear Concept in Airspace D-G Class)


The SESAR project URClearED is concerned with a formally precise definition of a "Well Clear" concept in airspaces D to G, particularly involving drones.
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USEPE (U-space Separation in Europe)


USEPE will develop a concept to ensure safe separation of unmanned aerial vehicles (from other drones and from manned aircraft) in a crowded urban airspace. It will also look at the impact of turbulent wind shear between buildings and new machine learning methods to automate the separation management.
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USpace4UAM (USpace for Urban Air Mobility)


USpace4UAM is a two-year demonstration project, in which air-taxi and drone system manufacturers, air traffic control providers, service providers and research institutions aim to demonstrate the current state of research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles and air-taxis in various operational missions.
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SESAR Videos

Multiple Remote Tower Video (2020)


How can you make running smaller airports more cost efficient? One smart way is through the implementation of the SESAR Multiple Remote Tower solutions. Have a look how it works in the animated explainer video.
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Integrated Airports Operations Video (2019)


In the SESAR Integrated Airport Operations (IAO) project, Very Large Scale Demonstrations were carried out at three airports to demonstrate the benefits of Air Traffic Management solutions developed in the SESAR programme.
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Remote Tower for Multiple Airports (2019)


Within the European research project ‘PJ05 Remote Tower for Multiple Airports’ DLR researchers and their international partners (Frequentis AG, Leonardo Germany GmbH, HungaroControl, and Oro Navigacija) have carried out simulations to investigate how a single air traffic controller can control not just one, but multiple airports.
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