Key challenges faced in air traffic management include continual pressure on global airspace to
accommodate traffic growth; increasing demands for efficiency and reduction in environmental
impact; surging use of “drones” or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS); and rapidly changing
geo-politics.
Major modernisation programmes have been launched to develop and evolve future air traffic
management systems to meet these challenges, and whilst much has been achieved there is still a
long way to go before today’s vision becomes tomorrows reality.
Modelling and simulation plays an increasingly central role in this process as concepts are
developed through to live systems with associated performance optimising tools and training
systems.
This conference seeks to review the challenges associated with future air traffic management
through the lens of their associated modelling and simulation solutions, as they converge with live
deployable systems.
We aim to share progress, facilitate discussion, and open the possibility of new or improved
modelling and simulation derived solutions for system concept development, deployment, training
and support.