The AEON project has recently participated in the last edition of SESAR Innovation Days. During this well-known conference, the Consortium presented a paper and a poster to illustrate the set of tools developed to assist ATCOs in managing the increased number of vehicles that may be introduced on the ground to cut fuel consumption and therefore
Among the different task forces launched by EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, one has been launched recently to take into account all recent ATC/ATM developments that can impact EUROCONTROL A-SMGCS Specifications. The first meeting of the A-SMGCS TF took place in mid-November 2022. As a task force member, the Consortium had the
This "Increasing Automation in ATM and Airport Operation" event represents a milestone in the activities conducted by the AEON Consortium with the thorough involvement of the aviation industry. The event sets the conclusion of the project activities, the ones aimed to pave the way for a more sustainable concept of taxing operations. Similarly, the occasion
The AEON Consortium is proud to announce that at the end of May 2022 was invited as a member of the Sustainable Taxiing Task Force (STX TF) of EUROCONTROL. The main objective of the TF is to deliver recommendations for procedure standardisation in order to remove (to the extent possible) one of the main barriers
In mid-October 2022, the Consortium participated in the Towards Sustainable Aviation Summit in Toulouse. The AEON project presented its second paper illustrating the project results after the validation session. After an overall description of the context of the application, the paper moves to the presentation of the concept, the inter-operating supporting tool and the validation
AEON and ARTIMATION are SESAR JU exploratory research projects supporting the European Union to increase the level of automation in ATM and Airport operations. In particular, the projects are providing an innovative concept of engine-off taxiing techniques (i.e., WheelTug, TaxiBots and Single-Engine Taxiing) and transparent and explainable algorithms presented with different visualisation techniques to improve
We have talked several times about the validation activities of the AEON project and how the Consortium aimed to refine the concept of operations through an iterative approach. Now that the final evaluation session marks the end of the evaluation activities, the Consortium organised the Second Advisory Board meeting to present the results to the
In the first week of July, the AEON Consortium met in Toulouse at the ENAC facilities to carry out the final evaluation of the operational concept that integrates engine-off taxiing techniques such as TaxiBots, E-Taxi, WheelTugs and Single-Engine Taxiing. The evaluation of AEON's solution began almost a year ago when the Consortium asked the Advisory
Last week, the AEON project had the opportunity to present the state of taxiing operations in a press presentation held at the World ATM Congress 2022 in Madrid. The WAC is the most relevant event in the ATM domain. It connects more than 6000 people from 110+ countries around the world. The project illustrated how
The AEON project has recently flown to Amsterdam Schiphol to meet the partners of the ALBATROSS project, an SJU-funded industrial project aiming to demonstrate how the technical and operational R&D achievements of last years can transform the current fuel-intensive aviation into an environment-friendly industry sector. The two Consortia were able to exchange the results from