Are stakeholder's interested about the Achieved Yes. AURORA has iteratively presented its results to an Airspace Users Group technology (customer, funding source, composed by Iberia, Air Europa, KLM, Turkish Airlines and Novair to ensure the etc.)? commitment with the approach. Table 8: ER Fund / AO Research Maturity Assessment for offline process. ID Criteria Satisfaction Rationale - Link to deliverables - Comments Has a potential new idea or concept Yes. The problem identified is the need of enhancing the current been identified that employs a new efficiency KPI with principles such as measuring against wind optimum scientific fact/principle? route, assessing improvements in the vertical profile and the use of Free Route. OPS.ER.1 Achieved If the new indicator was to be measured against the wind optimum trajectory, it was recognized the need an extremely precise model of such trajectories, which does not currently exist. Have the basic scientific principles Yes. D3.1 of Experimental Plans” [3] describes the principles and “Description OPS.ER.2 underpinning the idea/concept been Achieved technologies for the proposed enabler Centralised Trajectories Reconstruction identified? and Generation Services. Does the analysis of the "state of the The literature review and state-of-the-art analysis performed in D2.1 OPS.ER.3 art" show that the new concept / idea Achieved of user-centric air traffic efficiency indicators” [2] show the need to “Definition / technology fills a need? be addressed. Has the new concept or technology Yes. D3.1 of Experimental Plans” [3] describes in detail the “Description been described with sufficient approach for the Centralised Trajectories Reconstruction and Generation OPS.ER.4 detail? Does it describe a potentially Achieved Services. This is also described in the paper to the SIDs 2017 "User-centric useful new capability for the ATM Flight Efficiency and Equity indicators". system?
Are stakeholder's interested about the technology (customer, funding source, etc.)? Achieved Yes. AURORA has iteratively presented its results to an Airspace Users Group composed by Iberia, Air Europa, KLM, Turkish Airlines and Novair to ensure the commitment with the approach. Table 8: ER Fund / AO Research Maturity Assessment for offline process. ID Criteria Satisfaction Rationale - Link to deliverables - Comments OPS.ER.1 Has a potential new idea or concept been identified that employs a new scientific fact/principle? Achieved Yes. The problem identified is the need of enhancing the current efficiency KPI with principles such as measuring against wind optimum route, assessing improvements in the vertical profile and the use of Free Route. If the new indicator was to be measured against the wind optimum trajectory, it was recognized the need an extremely precise model of such trajectories, which does not currently exist. OPS.ER.2 Have the basic scientific principles underpinning the idea/concept been identified? Achieved Yes. D3.1 “Description of Experimental Plans” [3] describes the principles and technologies for the proposed enabler Centralised Trajectories Reconstruction and Generation Services. OPS.ER.3 Does the analysis of the "state of the art" show that the new concept / idea / technology fills a need? Achieved The literature review and state-of-the-art analysis performed in D2.1 “Definition of user-centric air traffic efficiency indicators” [2] show the need to be addressed. OPS.ER.4 Has the new concept or technology been described with sufficient detail? Does it describe a potentially useful new capability for the ATM system? Achieved Yes. D3.1 “Description of Experimental Plans” [3] describes in detail the approach for the Centralised Trajectories Reconstruction and Generation Services. This is also described in the paper to the SIDs 2017 "User-centric Flight Efficiency and Equity indicators".
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