Future air traffic management systems and financial decision-making constraints.

The object is to identify characteristics of feasible systems for UK — and European — Air Traffic Management (ATM) in the coming decades. ATM here covers Air Traffic Control (ATC) provision plus wider issues, such as airspace design. The analytical focus is on the financial decision-making processes and constraints that will act to shape this future system. R&D work into control workload and planning based on an "ATM core concept" are proposed as likely to offer the best way forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]