The PPlane project is a direct follow up study to Out-of-the-Box project that aimed to identify potential new concepts and technologies for future air transport and focused on a number of radical changes to the system rather than taking incremental steps. As a result of the Out-of-the-Box project, PPlane implements a systematic approach to radical and novel ideas for Personal Air Transport System (PATS). The project starts with the definition of several operational concepts and implements an optimization model and several selection criteria to suggest and analyze new concepts for the personal air transport system of the future. The main selection criteria include: “Security and safety”, “Automation and Control”, “Environment”, and “Human Factors”. Horizontal areas such as technologies, regulation and affordability are considered in each of the above criteria. The resulting concepts are analyzed and compared resulting in recommendations for implementation across Europe. The PPlane team is led by ONERA and comprises well known organizations in the field of aviation from different domains including industry, research and academic institutes. Additional external experts will be invited to the advisory board. PPlane’s objectives and methodology are an excellent match with the objectives of AAT.2008.6.3.3. "Personal air transport systems" and in particular with AREA: 7.1.6.3 “Promising Pioneering Ideas in Air Transport” matching the expected impact of “assessing the viability or paving the way towards the realization of the new ideas and concepts identified by ACARE”. Moreover, the definition of the PATS concepts will be built according to the ATM structure planned in SESAR.
Coordinator
Office National D'Etudes Et De Recherches Aerospatiales (France)
Other participants
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
- Dip. di Ingegneria Industriale-DIN
- Resp. Scientifico: Dott. Fabrizio Giulietti
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (Israel)
Airnet Trgovina In Storitve D.O.O. (Slovenia)
Vysoke Uceni Technicke V Brne (Czech Republic)
Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali Scpa (Italy)
Intergam Communications Ltd (Israel)
Politechnika Warszawska (Poland)
Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft - Und Raumfahrt Ev - (Germany)
Instituto Nacional De Tecnica Aeroespacial (Spain)
Stichting Nationaal Lucht- En Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (The Netherlands)
University Of Patras (Greece)
Rea-Tech Mernoki Es Epiteszeti Kft. (Hungary)
Start date 01/10/2009
End date 31/10/2012
Duration 37 months
Project Reference 233805
Project cost 4.402.656 EURO
Project Funding 3.279.005 EURO
Area FP7-COOPERATION-TRANSPORT
Subprogramme Area AAT.2008.6.3.3: Personal Air Transport Systems
Contract type Collaborative Project - Small of medium-scale focused research project