ERASMUS: a new path for 4d trajectory-based enablers to reduce the traffic complexity

The European Commission funded ERASMUS is a 30 months project to look at ways to effectively integrate advanced automation concepts consistent with controllers' human factors issues. This paper outlines an innovative concept of operations that combines a human factors approach, automation technologies and their relationship to overall system safety and efficiency. ERASMUS aims at investigating three applications with varying levels of automation: subliminal control, ATC auto pilot and enhanced MTCD. Only the subliminal application is presented in this paper.