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US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium

Prague, Czech Republic

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US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium

ATM R&D Seminar to become ATRD Symposium!

Starting in 2025, the ATM R&D Seminar and the International Conference on Research in Air Transportation are being combined into an annual event called the US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium.

The Symposium will include all the features of the previous conferences, including:

  • Technical sessions with peer-reviewed technical papers
  • Plenary talks by government and industry leaders
  • Doctoral student symposium
  • Tutorials on topical subjects
  • And more!

The first Symposium will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from June 24-27 2025.

The Call for Papers may be found here.

History of the ATM Seminar

The Federal Aviation Administration and EUROCONTROL have jointly organized an international seminar for Air Traffic Management Research and Development (ATM R&D) since 1997. These seminars were held every two years, alternating between the USA and Europe, and have become the top event for ATM researchers.

The ATM R&D Seminars are particularly important in view of the need to agree and develop solutions that are globally relevant, encompassing SESAR, NextGen and other international programs. The seminars promote international collaboration, create and reinforce relationships between leading ATM experts and researchers world-wide, and encourage discussion and consensus on major issues.

ATM is defined in the ICAO ATM Global Concept document as "the dynamic, integrated management of air traffic and airspace - safely, economically, and efficiently - through the provision of facilities and seamless services in collaboration with all parties". ATM therefore encompasses airspace organization and management, flow and capacity management and en-route, terminal and airport air traffic control.

The solutions to today's and future challenges are being addressed right now in research and development labs around the world. It is cutting edge material like this that is presented and discussed at the ATM R&D Seminar.

There have been 15 USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminars resulting in an archive of more than 850 peer-reviewed papers that are available on this website. This represents one of the most valuable and widely-used records of ATM research available.

ATRD Symposium Themes

Air traffic flow management and optimization

4-D Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Separation assurance and safety nets

Complexity science, analytics and big data for ATM

Integrated airport/airside operations

Economics, finance and policy

ATM performance measurement and management

Weather in ATM

Human Factors

Environment and energy efficiency

Advanced communication, surveillance and navigation

Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems

Safety, resilience and security


Schedule

ATRD Symposium Schedule AT-A-GLANCE

The ATRD Symposium 2025 Schedule AT-A-GLANCE in PDF format.

Schedule AT-A-GLANCE (PDF)
19:00

June 23

Early registration, welcome reception
Grand Hotel International
07:45

June 24

Buses depart Grand Hotel International
08:30

June 24

Welcome and Registration
09:00

June 24

Welcome by Conference Chairs

Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL and Eric Neiderman, FAA

09:20

June 24

Welcome Speeches

Martin Kučera, Prague Airport and Tânia Cardoso Simões, EUROCONTROL

09:45

June 24

Keynote 1
Digitalization and automatization in Prague Airport Operations

Vladimir Kuran & Petr Had, Prague Airport

10:15

June 24

Coffee
10:45

June 24

Session
Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations I

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

11:25

June 24

Session
Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations I

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

12:05

June 24

Session
Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations I

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

12:45

June 24

Lunch
13:45

June 24

Session
Track 1 - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Marc Bourgois (EUROCONTROL)
Room B

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Yu Yu Zhang (USF)
Room C

14:15

June 24

Session
Track 1 - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Marc Bourgois (EUROCONTROL)
Room B

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Yu Yu Zhang (USF)
Room C

14:45

June 24

Coffee
15:15

June 24

Session
Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations II

Chair Dirk Kugler (DLR)
Room A

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations II

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

15:55

June 24

Session
Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations II

Chair Dirk Kugler (DLR)
Room A

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations II

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

16:35

June 24

Session
Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations II

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

17:30

June 24

Buses depart conference center
06:00

June 25

5K fun run/walk
09:00

June 25

Buses depart Grand Hotel International
09:30

June 25

Coffee
10:00

June 25

Session
Track 1 - Safety, resilience, and security

Chair Sybert Stroeve (NLR)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency I

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room C

10:40

June 25

Session
Track 1 - Safety, resilience, and security

Chair Sybert Stroeve (NLR)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency I

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room C

11:20

June 25

Session
Track 1 - Safety, resilience, and security

Chair Sybert Stroeve (NLR)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency I

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room C

12:00

June 25

Light Lunch
13:00

June 25

Session
Track - Tutorial session 1

Chair Jan Groot (TU Delft)
Room B

Track - Tutorial session 2

Chair Manuel Soler & Abolfazi Simorgh (UC3M)
Room C

14:30

June 25

Refreshments
14:45

June 25

Buses depart conference center
Bus return for those not on airport visit
15:00

June 25

Visit Prague Airport
Bus return to hotel forseen 17:15
08:00

June 26

Buses depart Grand Hotel International
08:30

June 26

Coffee
09:00

June 26

Panel 1
Hey Siri, Which way should I vector this aircraft?

Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Moderator

10:30

June 26

Coffee
11:00

June 26

Session
Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Michael Schultz (University of the Bundeswehr)
Room B

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency II

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

11:40

June 26

Session
Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Michael Schultz (University of the Bundeswehr)
Room B

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency II

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

12:20

June 26

Session
Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Michael Schultz (University of the Bundeswehr)
Room B

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency II

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

13:00

June 26

Lunch
14:00

June 26

Session
Track - Tutorial session 3

Chair Jakub Steiner & Jakub Trýb (Czech Technical University)
Room A

Track - Tutorial session 4

Chair Thinh Pham and Yash Guleria (NTU)
Room B

Track - Tutorial session 5

Chair Junzi Sun (TU Delft)
Room C

15:30

June 26

Coffee
16:00

June 26

Session
Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 4

Chair Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL)
Room B

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 5

Chair James Jones (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

16:30

June 26

Session
Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 4

Chair Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL)
Room B

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 5

Chair James Jones (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

17:15

June 26

Buses depart conference center
18:45

June 26

Gala Dinner

Boat Anna Carolina, Pier 6 (under the Fairmont Hotel)

08:00

June 27

Buses depart Grand Hotel International
08:30

June 27

Coffee
09:00

June 27

Session
Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Cheryl Quinn (NASA)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization III

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

Track 3 - Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Chair Max Li (U Mich)
Room C

09:40

June 27

Session
Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Cheryl Quinn (NASA)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization III

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

Track 3 - Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Chair Max Li (U Mich)
Room C

10:20

June 27

Session
Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Cheryl Quinn (NASA)
Room A

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization III

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

Track 3 - Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Chair Max Li (U Mich)
Room C

11:00

June 27

Coffee
11:30

June 27

Panel 2
What really sucks about operations?

Joseph Post (USF), Moderator

13:00

June 27

Lunch
14:00

June 27

Closing Session
Best Paper Awards & Closing Announcement ATRDS 2026

Eric Neiderman, FAA and Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL

15:15

June 27

Committee Meeting

2025 ATRD Committee

Dirk Schaefer

Europe General Seminar Chair

EUROCONTROL

Eric Neiderman

U.S. General Seminar Chair

Federal Aviation Administration

Program Committee

Europe

  • Hartmut Fricke, TU Dresden, Germany (Doctoral Chair)
  • Michael Schultz, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany (Tutorial Chair)
  • Tatjana Bolic, U. of Westminster, UK
  • Marc Bourgois, EUROCONTROL
  • Lorenzo Castelli, University of Trieste, Italy
  • Jose Miguel de Pablo, CRIDA/Enaire, Spain
  • Daniel Delahaye, ENAC, France
  • Luis Delgado, U. of Westminster, UK
  • Nicolas Durand, ENAC, France
  • Joost Ellerbroek, TU Delft, Netherlands
  • Peter Hecker, TU Braunschweig, Germany
  • Jacco Hoekstra, TU Delft, Netherlands
  • Eric Hoffman, EUROCONTROL
  • Gokhan Inalhan, Cranfield University, UK
  • Dominik Janisch, Austro Control
  • Radosav Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Vladimir Kuran, Prague Airport, Czech Republic
  • Javier Lopez, Boeing, Spain
  • Guglielmo Lulli, Lancaster University, UK
  • José Luis, Muñoz Univsitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
  • Fedja Netjasov, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Xavier Prats, UPC, Spain
  • Jose J., Ramasco Spanish National Research Council
  • Andrea Ranieri, ALG Global, Spain
  • Marta Sanchez, CRIDA/Enaire, Spain
  • Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL
  • Manuel Fernando, Soler U Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • Sybert Stroeve, NLR, Netherlands
  • Georg Trausmuth, Frequentis, Austria

United States

  • Max Li, University of Michigan (Communication Chair)
  • David Lovell, UMD (Doctoral Chair)
  • Yu Zhang, USF (Tutorial Chair)
  • Kenneth Allendoerfer, FAA/ANG
  • Hamsa Balakrishnan , MIT
  • Christopher Dorbian, FAA/AEE
  • Alexander Estes, UMD
  • Tara Gibson, FAA
  • Mark Hansen, UC Berkeley
  • James Jones, MIT LL
  • Joseph Post, USF
  • Cheryl Quinn, NASA/HQ
  • Almira Ramadani, FAA/ATO
  • Tom Reynolds, MIT LL
  • Akbar Sultan, NASA/HQ
  • Dengfeng Sun, Purdue University
  • Craig Wanke, MITRE CAASD
  • Peng Wei, GWU
  • Seth Young, The Aviation Planning Group

Asia

  • Sameer Alam, NTU, Singapore (Communication Chair)
  • Yanjun Wang, Nanjing University of Aero/Astro, China

Australia

  • Annie Liang, RMIT University, Australia

2025 Venue

Prague, Czech Republic

Venue
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