A consortium of academia and industry participants has launched a four-year program to evaluate the air traffic management (ATM) processes required to handle the forecast doubling, and perhaps tripling, of air traffic by 2025. Called the Integrated Airport and initiated independent of the FAA, the program aims to create a proactive research and development environment while demonstrating the synergy among current and emerging ATM technologies and showing the feasibility of accelerating their implementation.
Conceived in 2005 by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, and Lockheed Martin Transport and Security Solutions, the program is a cooperative effort with Daytona Beach International Airport and the airport’s Volusia County owners. Project officials said their objective is to “create the only national test bed to integrate product solutions from different competing aerospace companies.” Additionally, they point out that it is “the only partnership with an aerospace university that will provide simulation-based research and development testing and analysis of the solutions provided.”
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