Members of the ISA research team, who have been working on the SESAR WP-E FLITE project, attended the EU Door-to-Door mobility workshop at the University of Westminster. The workshop, which is part of the SESAR WP-E Dataset 2050 project, presented the challenges faced in regard to meeting the Flightpath 2050 mobility goal that “90% of passengers within Europe are able to complete their door-to-door journeys within 4 hours”.
During the workshop, ISA had the opportunity to exchange its views and experience gained from the Future Long-term ATM Concept, Infrastructure, Technologies and Operational Environment (FLITE) research conducted by ISA in collaboration with Imperial College London (ICL), which is scheduled to be complete at the end of Summer 2016.
During the FLITE project, ISA and ICL conducted assessments of the future ATM Network efficiency in 2050 with a particular focus on its ability to expedite the flow of air traffic in the face of a large increase in demand. The analysis highlights three challenges to the door-to-door mobility: runway capacity shortage, airport accessibility (door-to-kerb) and passenger handling system (kerb-to-gate).
In light of these challenges, ISA and ICL set out to provide guidelines that may help to identify a framework for a high-performance European transport system where airports and urban infrastructure solutions are fully integrated. This would imply expanding the transport concept to encompass both the airside and landside operations where all the roads including skyways lead efficiently to and from the airports.
For more information on the FLITE research please contact ISA Software.
