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The Genesis of Cost-efficiency based European Airspace Fragmentation

When it comes to discussion about efficiency of Air Traffic Management (ATM) system in Europe, European airspace fragmentation is frequently mentioned as barrier limiting further efficiency improvement of ATM system. Thereby, it should be noted that European airspace fragmentation can be studied from multiple different aspects. It can be analysed from organisational, operational, technical, functional or performance-based aspect. All this fragmentation aspects have their pros and cons. For example, from operational aspect, fragmenting airspace into smaller patterns (sectors) is normal operational practice (performed in order to adjust demand with capacity), while from performance-based aspect highly fragmented airspace is not preferred. In spite of, the European airspace fragmentation is mainly considered as the negative feature. By analysing situation from 1998 till 2020 this paper aims to answer research question whether and how European airspace is fragmented from cost- efficiency aspect. Thereby, the research is based on the examination of the spatiotemporal autocorrelation structures of the European airspace. After their determination, their spatial and temporal variability level was also studied. As research findings indicate that, from performance-based aspect, fragmentation of European airspace is dynamic and heterogeneous in both space and time, they were placed in wider context. Accordingly, the genesis of cost- efficiency based European airspace fragmentation is placed in the context of conceptual framework of currently applicable strategic planning practice whereby their causal relationship was identified

Air traffic management ; strategic planning ; airspace fragmentation ; cost-efficiency ; genesis

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