The CANSO ATM Dinner in association with the Jane's ATC Awards 2011 -

EVENT UPDATE: JANE'S ATC AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT GLITTERING AWARDS EVENING

The inaugural CANSO ATM Dinner & Jane's ATC Awards were a huge success! In the spectacular setting of the NH Krasnapolsky Hotel, a fantastic evening was had by all who attended the 'ATM social event of the year.'

Attended by 350 guests the event was a complete sell out. Hosted by David Bryon, former Managing Director of BMIbaby, guests enjoyed a three course meal and splendid entetainment from Opera on the Run. Shortlisted nominees were announced and winners in all 7 award categories received a glass award and certificate from the Ben Vogel, Editor of Jane's Airport Review and Jenny Beechener, Editor of Jane's Air Traffic Control. The feedback from participants has been fantastic. If you attended the event we would greatly appreciate your feedback. Please click here!

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Jane's ATC Award Winners 2011 - Click here to view winners brochure

Enabling Technology Award Winner - Aerothai

BOBCAT secure web-based traffic flow management system. This service has saved airlines at least 49 million kg of fuel and 205 million kg of CO2 emissions since its inception in 2007. Aerothai also introduced performance-based navigation and continuous descent operations at selected Thai airports in 2010.

Environment Award Winner - NAV Portugal

Free Route Airspace Lisbon (FRAL) project. FRAL project has contributed to a significant improvement of Lisbon airspace utilisation and design for both en-route and terminal areas, with a direct improvement in emissions reduction. It meets the requirements of international air carriers for optimum routes within the SESAR concept, reducing costs for aircraft operators and increasing performance and efficiency.

Contribution to European ATM Award Winner - Eurocontrol

Network Operations Portal (NOP) for continent-wide information sharing. NOP was developed by Eurocontrol to share a common view of the air traffic management situation across Europe with the whole aviation community. It serves two main purposes: monitoring the real time status of traffic, airspace and air traffic flow and capacity measures; and planning pan‐European operations on a collaborative way from the strategic to the tactical phases. This includes post‐operations analysis, the definition of air traffic flow management scenarios and a rolling process to permanently adjust planning to events, therefore optimising the use of available ATM capacity.

Service Provision Award Winner - NATS/Airbox

AWARE GNSS based navigation aid for general aviation use. AWARE was conceived from NATS research into the factors that lead to airspace infringements and the role and limitations of existing GNSS navigation aids in preventing these. Based on these findings, the AWARE team developed the Airspace Warning Device. The interface is simple, requiring minimal user input, but gives very clear depiction of nearby controlled airspace. The device gives audio and visual alerts when an aircraft is predicted to enter controlled airspace and further distinct warnings when inside controlled airspace.

Industry Award Winner - Boeing

InFlight Optimization Services for automated fuel savings advisories to aircraft while in flight. Two InFlight services have been announced. Direct Routes proactively identifies opportunities to save flight time by taking advantage of emergent direct routing opportunities that are pre-checked for considerations such as traffic conflicts, favourable winds and airspace/weather conflicts. Wind Updates proactively identifies improved flight management computer wind and temperature inputs customised to an aircraft’s current position and trajectory whenever appreciable fuel savings are possible.

Innovation Award Winner - Searidge Technologies

IntelliDAR camera system for surface target tracking and surveillance. IntelliDAR is a non-co-operative system that uses digital camera sensors coupled with advanced video analytics to provide detection, tracking and positional references of any target on the airport surface. Data is relayed to the control tower to provide controllers with radar-like data of airfield movements. Each monitored zone is installed with dual camera sensors set for redundancy and maximises reliability in obtaining a target's positional accuracy.

Runway Safety Award Winners - FAA/Sensis

ASDE-X surveillance data fusion for situational awareness of runway and taxiway areas. ASDE-X blends data from transponder multilateration, surface movement radar, terminal surveillance radar and ADS-B into highly accurate situational awareness of aircraft and vehicles operating in the runway and taxiway areas. In addition, ASDE-X features Safety Logic advanced conflict detection and alerting technology that uses complex algorithms to alert controls of more than 40 potential aircraft and vehicle incursion scenarios.

IHS Jane's would like to congratulate all the winners and shortlisted companies.