Air Traffic Management—Updates, Innovations, and Future Predictions
This issue of Avionics International features the latest updates and innovations in the world of air traffic management.
For the final issue of 2022, we are covering a variety of topics related to air traffic management. The cover story explores use cases for artificial intelligence and machine learning in air traffic control (ATC) systems. As global air traffic volume continues to return to pre-pandemic levels, the demand for higher performance ATC systems is projected to increase significantly. Eurocontrol projects an 84% increase in global flights by 2040. This article takes a look at the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve the performance of air traffic control systems.
The Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS), ICAO's post-MH370 flight tracking improvement initiative, has been adopted and enacted as regulation by individual civil aviation regulatory agencies across the globe, including EASA and others. Most notably, the FAA is missing from this list. In this article, Anne Wainscott-Sargent provides the latest updates on GADSS regulations and how airlines and OEMs are adapting to it.
In this issue, we also share updates on a new and growing topic—the need for vertiports, air traffic management systems, and other infrastructure for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. We have previously covered UTM—uncrewed traffic management—and air traffic management infrastructure and surveillance for drones. Now, we answer questions about how air traffic controllers will “see” eVTOLs, where these aircraft will land, and what infrastructure and projects the leading eVTOL OEMs are investing in.
In another feature article, we cover the latest innovations in remote air traffic control towers and some of the latest deployments occurring in the U.S., Europe, Middle East and elsewhere around the globe to understand how they're performing and what their usage could mean for aircraft avionics systems.
Have suggestions for topics we should be covering in upcoming editions of Avionics? Send me an email at jreed@accessintel.com.
Thanks for reading.
