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Programme Description
The SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking is an institutionalised European partnership between private and public sector partners set up to accelerate through research and innovation the delivery of the Digital European Sky.
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Summary
WA1 (ATM excellent science and outreach) comprises the exploratory research activities necessary to develop new concepts for ATM beyond those identified in the European ATM Master Plan and will help to develop emerging technologies and methods to the level of maturity required to feed the applied research conducted by the SESAR 3 JU. WA1 covers innovative content at pre‐TRL1 (TRL0) maturity level and the minimum target maturity level is to complete TRL1.
The role of ATM in the door-to-door chain of a passenger’s journey may seem small, but the punctuality of flights, and passengers’ perception of flying, is highly dependent on the smooth functioning of the entire journey. Considering ATM to be an integrated part of an intermodal transport system, the proposed solutions will make it possible to share data between transport modes and to collaborate better to optimise the performance of both the overall transport system and the D2D journey.
The SESAR 3 JU has identified the following innovative research elements that could be used to meet the challenge described above and achieve the expected outcomes.
- Understanding passenger expectations.
- Managing the passengers’ access to airport.
- Multimodal airport.
- ATM contribution to European Mobility as a Service (MaaS).
- Seamless connection between airports of all sizes, vertiports and heliports for airports.
Detailed Call Description
- Understanding passenger expectations. Understanding passenger expectations (with regard to origin–destination, travel time, comfort, ecological impact and reliability, etc.) is a continuous activity linked to the flexibility/changes over time in demand for modes of transport.
- Managing the passengers’ access to airport. Research aims at better understand and dynamically manage the arrival times of departing passengers at the airport. Research may consider medium/short-term predictions on the performance of different airport processes (both airside and groundside) and different factors: the operational situation at the airport (e.g., potential delays of the arriving flight (previous flight leg), passengers’ preferences, situation along the journey to the airport in different ground transport modes, etc.
- Multimodal airport. This research aims at evaluating the definition and impact assessment of new mobility solutions’ (e.g., shared mobility) for a multimodal airport. Research may cover aspects such as airport access, the use of surface modes and connected and autonomous vehicles to access the airport (including studying the trade-offs in terms of the environment, door-to-door travel time, etc.).
- ATM contribution to European Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Research aims at developing ATM innovative solutions enabling passengers to transfer seamlessly between air transport and other transportation modes to reach the final destination quickly, smoothly, predictably, on time and without interruption (R&I need: access to / exit from the airport: airports are obvious multimodal nodes for aviation).
- Seamless connection between airports of all sizes, vertiports and heliports. Research addresses potential solutions to enable simple, convenient, coordinated, safe and secure intermodal connections optimised for passenger experience.
- Digital twins for airports. This research aims at developing an AI-supported concept of digital twin (DT) for airports integrated within the network of transport service providers to optimise the travel time and the overall network capacity and reliability, while minimising the environmental impact and achieving a fully scalable network.
Research may study performance issues and generate possible improvements, all with the goal of generating valuable insights, which can then be applied back to the original physical object (R&I need: access to / exit from the airport: airports are obvious multimodal nodes for aviation).
Information sharing and governance in an integrated transport network. Research aims at investigating efficient ways for information transfer between transport operators as well as between transport operators and travellers. On top of the technical problems related with information sharing, one of the main issues to be addressed for the implementation of intermodal solutions is the lack of incentives and governance models (i.e. stakeholders need to perceive incentives to actually engage in coordination mechanisms). Research on governance and economic aspects is needed to address this problem. Research shall consider the ATM dimension of the problem, engaging with relevant ATM stakeholders.
Mobility in the context of the European Integrated Transport Network. The European transportation ecosystem is transitioning from individual modes of transport, through the concept of Integrated Transport System, towards that of Mobility. Ιt differs from accessibility, which refers to the ability to access or reach a desired service or activity. There is, however, no harmonised concept for mobility, at least not in the scientific sense we normally use in Aviation. Research aims at developing a harmonised concept for multimodal Mobility in the context of the European Integrated Transport Network.
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Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The maximum expected EU contribution per project for each of the topics under Work Area 1 is €1 000 000.
The maximum expected EU contribution per project for each of the topics under Work Area 2 is €2 000 000.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Environment and Climate Change
- Information Technology
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Transport
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
- Local Authorities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional dissemination obligations:
- Beneficiaries must make proactive efforts to share, on a royalty-free basis, in a timely manner and as appropriate, all relevant results with the other grants awarded under the same call;
- Beneficiaries must acknowledge these obligations and incorporate them into the proposal, outlining the efforts they will make to meet them, and into Annex I to the grant agreement.
Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional exploitation obligations:
- beneficiaries must make available for reuse under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions all relevant results generated, through a well-defined mechanism using a trusted repository;
- if the purpose of the specific identified measures to exploit the results of the action is related to standardisation, beneficiaries must grant a non-exclusive licence to the results royalty-free;
- if working on linked actions, beneficiaries must ensure mutual access to the background to and to the results of ongoing and closed linked actions, should this be necessary to implement tasks under the linked actions or to exploit results generated by the linked actions as defined in the conditions laid down in this biannual work programme and in the call for proposals.
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SESAR 3 JU Call Helpdesk/ Functional mailbox: info-call@sesarju.eu