SESAR

The scope of the R&D Transversal Areas Work Package covers the improvements needed to adapt the Transversal Area (TA) (safety, security, environment, contingency (service continuity) and human performance) management system practices to SESAR as well as towards an integrated management system. WP16 also provides support and coordination for the consistent and coherent application of the already existing as well as newly developed TA-related practices to SESAR operational and system Work Packages.

WP 16 – TA R&D will contribute to the ATM Master Plan Achievement by delivering the R&D aiming to improve the current situation with new methods, tools, procedures, guidance and techniques adapted to the Flight Phase levels, in the areas of:

• Safety Management and Safety Assessment: Consider the overall picture of ATM risks (including the human reliability) in relation to performance. Improve separation assurance, ATM system defences beyond the existing or near future safety nets;
• Security Management: Develop the security management foundations for the development of SESAR (EC and ICAO legislation enhancements, ATM security standards & best practices); support the development of security management system;
• Environment: Improve the understanding of and response to: the different environmentally sustainable impacts (environmental, social, and economic); emerging environmentally sustainable related imperatives and risks; support the definition of the SESAR Environment Management System (EMS) and all environmental impacts including emissions, noise and local air quality; establishment of an environmental validation framework;
• Contingency: develop assessment methods to support the design/assessment and validation of "service continuity" modes of operations of the SESAR Concept of Operations;
• Human Performance (HP) Management: further develop the HP Case framework to be applied to SESAR cluster of OIs; Recruitment, Training, Staffing and Competence implications to support the change of the roles and responsibilities of ATM actors; Social Factor and Change Management implications due to SESAR CONOPS are to be timely managed to overcome possible showstoppers to the full implementation.

WP16 - TA Support & Coordination Function will contribute to the ATM Master Plan Achievement by ensuring an integrated, consistent, systematic and timely management of TA issues through the integrated TA Management Systems (Safety, Security, Environment, HP) in order to ensure:

• Compliance to TA-related EC Regulation and conformance to E-OCVM standard,
• Production of high-level requirements and validation acceptance criteria for the implementation of cluster of OIs,
• Contribution to stakeholder buy-in and reduction of resistance to change.

The objectives of WP16 are to:

• TA R&D: Describe the activities, deliverables and dependencies between the Transversal Areas (Safety, Security, Environment, Human Performance (HP), Contingency) and the Operational Improvements (OI), and their needs for intrinsic improvements, so called Transversal Improvements (TI);
• TA Support & Coordination Function (Safety, Security, Environment, HP): Ensure coordination & consistent approach of TA aspects and application of TA practices throughout SESAR Development Phase, including a contribution to validation acceptance for TA aspects,
  • Pro-actively provide SESAR projects with the best TA-related practices, guidelines, tools, methods, models and techniques (TA Reference Material) as well as coaching to support production of evidence on the acceptability of a cluster of OIs from a TA perspective,
  • Manage the overall SESAR Case per TA and TA assessment processes to identify and mitigate TA-related issues in projects.

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WP16 is further organised into 17 projects composed of 73 tasks:

SWP 16.0 Global Coordination and Management

SWP 16.1 Safety
P16.1.1 Develop a top-down accident-incident model and a Safety Target Achievement Roadmap (STAR)
P16.1.2 Ensuring ATM with SESAR is kept resilient (ex 16.1.1.9)
P16.1.3 Develop techniques for Dynamic Risk Modelling
P16.1.4 Develop the notion of “proof of concept” for aircraft certification when introducing new concept of operations

SWP 16.2 ATM Security
P 16.2.1 ATM Security management - ATM Security Framework
P16.2.2 ATM Security management - Security management tools
P 16.2.3 Security Risk assessment - Security risk assessment methodology
P16.2.4 Security Risk assessment - Security validation process
P 16.2.5 Harmonised ATM Security best practices

SWP 16.3 Environmental sustainability
P 16.3.1 Development of the SESAR environmental validation framework (metrics, methods, models, tools)
P 16.3.2 Support to development of performance indicators
P 16.3.3 Develop framework to establish interdependencies vs. other performance areas
P 16.3.4 Options to Mitigate Future Environmental Risks to ATM System Capacity
P 16.3.7 Future regulatory scenarios and impacts

SWP 16.4 Human Performance Management System R&D
P 16.4.1 Evolution from ATM HF Case to a HP Case Methodology for SESAR
P16.4.2 HP Tool Repository of SESAR standard HP methods and tools
P16.4.3 Impacts of future systems and procedures on selection, training, competence and staffing requirements
P16.4.4 Social and Cultural Factors impacting on SESAR Changes

SWP 16.5 Human performance in Automation support
P16.5.1 Identification and integration of Automation Related Best Practices
P16.5.2 Trade-off between planning and flexibility
P16.5.3 Guidance for an effective information presentation
P16.5.4 Selection and training requirements to work with automated decision and support tools

SWP 16.6 TA coordination and support function
P16.6.1 Safety support and coordination function
P16.6.2 Security support and coordination function
P16.6.3 Environment support and coordination function
P16.6.5 Human Performance support and coordination function
P16.6.6 Business Case Maintenance, support and coordination

Information to follow after the initiation phase.