Ricerc@Sapienza

When it comes to discussion about the efficiency of the Air Traffic Management (ATM) system in Europe, European airspace fragmentation is frequently mentioned as a barrier limiting further efficiency improvement of the ATM system. Thereby, European airspace fragmentation can be studied from multiple different aspects. It can be analyzed from organizational, operational, technical, functional or performance-based aspects. All this fragmentation aspects have their pros and cons.

By establishing the Single European Sky (SES) initiative, data describing European Air Traffic Management (ATM) network’ performance has become highly available - like never before. Since the data-sharing problem is minimized, the strategic planning and development boards of ATM related stakeholders face a new challenging situation; how to deal with large amounts of data and how to interpret it correctly. Consequently, that led to the development of different Information Technology (IT) solutions with an ability to obtain, storage and process large amounts of data.