SESAR Joint Undertaking is the European public-private partnership that is managing the development phase of the Single European Sky ATM Research

Single European Sky ATM Research

Single European Sky ATM Research is the name given to the collaborative project that is intended to completely overhaul the European airspace and its Air Traffic Management .- Project :The SESAR project is composed of three phases :...

 (SESAR) Programme that will give Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 a high-performance Air Traffic Management

Air traffic control

Air traffic control is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The primary purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other...

 infrastructure which will enable the safe and environmentally friendly development of air transport.
The objectives of this programme are, by 2020, to save:

• 8 to 14 minutes
• 300 to 500 kg of fuel
• 948 to 1575 kg of CO2

on average per flight.

Overview

SESAR aims at developing the new generation air traffic management system capable of ensuring the safety and fluidity of air transport worldwide over the next 30 years.

• Its first phase (the Definition phase) delivered the ATM master plan that defines the content, the development and deployment plans of the next generation of ATM systems.
• The Development phase (2008-2013) will produce the required new generation of technological systems, components and operational procedures as defined in the SESAR ATM Master Plan and Work Programme.
• The Deployment phase (2014-2020) will see the large scale production and implementation of the new air traffic management infrastructure, composed of fully harmonised and interoperable components guaranteeing high performance air transport activities in Europe.

Legal basis

Taking into account the number of actors involved and the financial resources and technical expertise needed, a legal entity, the SESAR Joint Undertaking, was created under Community law on 27 February 2007 to manage the funds assigned to the SESAR project during its Development Phase.

Funding and Budget

The total estimated cost of the development phase of SESAR is € 2.1 billion, to be shared equally between the European Community, Eurocontrol and the industry (€700 million Community, €700 million Eurocontrol, €700 million industry).

Members

The SESAR Joint Undertaking was created under European Community law on 27 February 2007 with Eurocontrol  and the European Commission

European Commission

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 as founding members.
In addition to the two founding members, 15 organisations have signed a membership agreement with the SESAR JU. The programme can such profit from the expertise of airport operators, air navigation service providers (ANSPs), ground and aerospace manufacturing industry, aircraft manufacturers, and airborne equipment manufacturers:

• AENA
• Airbus
• Alenia Aeronautica
• DFS
• DSNA
• ENAV
• EUROCONTROL
• European Commission
• Frequentis
• Honeywell
• Indra
• NATMIG
• NATS
• NORACON
• SEAC
• SELEX
• Thales

Associate partners
With the endorsement of 13 associate partners in July 2010, the SESAR Joint Undertaking included additional companies with very different profiles and expertise from around the world in the SESAR work programme. Those are:

• AVTECH
• Belgocontrol
• The Boeing company
• Consortium LVNL
• Lockheed Martin UK
• NATS Services
• NAV Portugal
• ONDA (Moroccan Airports Authority)
• Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA)
• SEA Aeroporti di Milano S.p.A.
• Skyguide
• Thales Australia
• Thales Raytheon Systems

Programme

The SESAR programme will be executed by the 16 members and represents about 300 projects grouped into Work Packages:

• WP 3: Validation Infrastructure Adaptation and Integration
• WP 4: En-route operations
• WP 5: Terminal operations
• WP 6: Airport operations
• WP 7: Netwrok operations
• WP 8: Information management
• WP 9: Aircraft systems
• WP 10: En-Route & Approach ATC Systems
• WP 11: Flight and Wing Operations Centres / Meteorological Services
• WP 12: Airport Systems
• WP 13: Network Information Management System
• WP 14: SWIM Technical Architecture
• WP 15: Non-Avionic CNS System
• WP 16: R&D Transversal Areas
• WP B: Target Concept and Architecture Maintenance
• WP C: Master Plan Maintenance
• WP E: SESAR Long Term and Innovative Research

SESAR Release
Early 2011, SESAR issued "SESAR Release 2011" a document presenting to the aviation community new or improved air traffic management solutions at a preindustrialisation stage ready for deployment. Concretely, 29 validation exercises conducted by the SESAR members all over Europe will be completed by end 2011. Those exercises will cover the areas of efficient and green terminal airspace operations, the initial 4D trajectory, end to end traffic synchronisation, as well as integrated and collaborative network management.

SESAR JU staff

The SESAR Joint Undertaking is composed of around 40 staff, the executive director is Patrick KY

External links

• SESAR JU web site
• SESAR
  Single European Sky ATM Research
  Single European Sky ATM Research is the name given to the collaborative project that is intended to completely overhaul the European airspace and its Air Traffic Management .- Project :The SESAR project is composed of three phases :...
  
  
• Description of the SESAR Work Packages
• EUROCONTROL