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(Ensuring customers satisfaction and safety)
Improving air transport safety and security means ensuring that
irrespective of the growth of air traffic, there will be fewer accidents and
aircraft will be more secure against hostile actions.
Under FP7, research under this theme will seek to attain quantum leaps
in passenger choice and schedule flexibility, while achieving a five-fold
reduction in accident rate. New technologies will enable a wider choice
of aircraft / engine configurations ranging from very large, wide-body
airliners, medium size craft, business jets, tilt-rotor aircraft, to personal
small-size vehicles with the highest levels of safety as well as comfort,
health conditions and services. Research will include the adaptation
of airport and air traffic operations to 24-hour utilisation at acceptable
community noise levels.
This theme relates to the 'Highly Customer-Orientated High Level Target
Concept' of ACARE's Strategic Research Agenda, in particular focusing
on the safety objective.
South African organisations have interest and capabilities in the following:
- Accident research
- Automatic onboard conflict recognition
- Autonomous flight
- Communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS)
- Controller pilot data link communication (CPDLC)
- Integrated surveillance systems
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