European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Eurocontrol Experimental Centre

European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Eurocontrol Experimental Centre

European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Performance Review Unit Eurocontrol Experimental Centre

The study has been performed by the Performance Review Unit with the assistance of the EEC at Brétigny. The subject of this study is to develop a framework for the cost benchmarking of the European en-route Air Navigation Services (ANS). This document has been collated by mechanical means. Should there be missing pages, please report to: EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre Publications Office Centr...

European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Eurocontrol European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme

This document is issued as EATCHIP Reference Material. The contents are not mandatory. They provide information and explanation or may indicate best practice.

Contingency Plans for Air Traffic Management

We present two heuristics based on constraint technology that solve the problem of generating air traffic management contingency plans, which are used in the case of a catastrophic infrastructure failure within EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. Of the heuristics presented, one is based on constraintbased local search and tabu search, and the other one is a...

Have We Learned Enough from Überlingen: The Challenges of Safety Improvement in European Air Traffic Management

This paper identifies the complex ways in which technical, organisational and political constraints shape the decisions and actions taken by national and international safety organisations. In particular, we assess the interventions made by Swiss Federal agencies and by the Air Navigation Service provider (ANSP) following the Überlingen mid-air collision in July 1 2002. Later sections show that...