Boeing’s air traffic management (ATM) division has issued its third and final report on future high-level needs for the world’s ATM environment. The document, “Working together to define the future global ATM system,” represents a broad consensus of views of aviation experts from the U.S., Europe and the Far East, who were brought together as three separate teams by Boeing to analyze system needs in 2020 and recommend essential ATM “cornerstones” for the future.
The year 2020 was chosen because traffic forecasts suggest that, by that date, air travel will double in the U.S. and Europe and will triple in the Far East. Clearly, today’s system could not carry that load, but the report emphasizes that improvements to the system must not proceed in isolation, region by region. The key word is interoperability of both aircraft and regional control and monitoring systems to produce the seamless airspace of the future.
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