WP 7 Network Operations

The scope of the Network Operations Work Package covers the evolution of services taking place in the business development and planning phases to prepare and support trajectory-based operations including airspace management, collaborative flight planning and Network Operations Plan (NOP). It encompasses the services included in the execution phase to facilitate trajectory-based operations in case of capacity issues.

WP 7 will contribute to the ATM Master Plan achievement by bringing direct benefits in efficiency and safety through better airspace management. However, it will also ensure that the benefits of other Work Packages (in particular WPs 4, 5 and 6) are maximised through the development of concepts such as the Network Operations Plan and RBT, which are fundamental elements of the overall SESAR concept and without which the paradigm shift to a trajectory-based environment will not be possible.

The objectives of WP 7 are to:

• Develop, refine and update the Network Operations concept, based upon the SESAR CONOPS and ensure consistency with other elements of the work programme;
• Develop the methodologies for airspace management and organisation, including processes for an improved flexible use of airspace, the accommodation of user preferred routes and dynamic airspace configurations;
• Develop the Business/Mission Trajectory management (including the shared business trajectory, used for advanced planning and the required Business trajectory, which is the final and agreed trajectory);
• Further develop the Network Operations Plan (NOP), a dynamic rolling plan providing a detailed overview (past, current and forecast) of the European ATM environment to those concerned;
• Improve Demand Capacity Balancing (DCB) process to ensure that the ATM network is able to meet the demands of all users, taking into account the 4D trajectories, described through Reference Business Trajectories (RBT);
• Define and develop the User Driven Prioritisation Process (UDPP), whereby operators can apply their own priorities during periods of capacity shortfall, based upon a CDM approach.

WP 7 is further organised into 12 projects:

SWP 7.0 Global Co-ordination and Management
SWP 7.2 Co-ordination and Consolidation of Concept Definition and Validation
SWP 7.3 Integrated and Pre-Operational Validation
P 7.3.1 AOM and DCB Integrated Process
P 7.3.2 Integrated Network CDM
SWP 7.5 Airspace Organisation & Management
P 7.5.2 Advanced Flexible Use of Airspace
P 7.5.3 User Preferred Routing
P 7.5.4 Dynamic Airspace Configurations
SWP 7.6 Business/Mission Trajectory Management & Demand Capacity Balancing
P 7.6.1 Collaborative NOP
P 7.6.2 Business/Mission Trajectory Management
P 7.6.3 DCB/ASM Scenarios Management
P 7.6.4 UDPP
P 7.6.5 Dynamic DCB
SWP 7.7 Transition Scenarios

Information to follow after the initiation phase.