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DIRE C T OR S ’ REPOR T L F V 2019LFV 2019 SMART
AND SUSTAINABLE AIRSPACE 2040 Today's airspace in Sweden is outdated and based largely on the conditions that applied 25 years ago. The requirements and conditions are different today. In May 2018, LFV received the government's mandate to carry out a focussed study on development of the Swedish airspace. The mandate entails that LFV develops a proposal for an airspace strategy that can serve as a basis for the task of carrying out supervision of the airspace. The proposed strategy involves supervision of the lower airspace in consideration of environmental effectiveness, assured access for the Swedish Armed Forces and other users of the airspace at lower altitudes. The strategy also involves a modernisation of the airspace structure for air traffic to and from the Stockholm area and that ongoing development of the upper-most part of the airspace should continue within the scope of a European airspace development. LFV also proposes that the government designates an authority with the responsibility for the long-term comprehensive development of the Swedish airspace and continued planning that also incorporates changes in the surrounding world, such as the future's electrified aviation or the need for climate adaptation of the airspace. MODERNISATION OF THE AIRSPACE STARTING POINT STOCKHOLM More than 60 per cent of all flights that take off and land in Sweden pass through Stockholm's airspace. Modernisation of the airspace under Free Route Airspace must begin there. The SAARP programme, Stockholm-Arlanda Airspace Redesign Program, will develop airspace and procedures for traffic to and from the Stockholm area in order to address the problems and challenges today and in the future. Swedavia is the project owner with LFV as a subcontractor with responsibility for development of airspace and procedures. SAARP will create a less complex airspace and a more modern and cost-effective system that benefits from the fleet's advanced equipment whilst creating flows that better reflect the actual flows. By reducing complexity in the airspace sectors, the air traffic controller's workload is reduced. That is prerequisite in order to achieve the goal of higher cost-effectiveness. The project works based on ten defined design principles that will contribute to achieving the established goals: • Decreased workload per flight. • Increased predictability for arriving traffic. • Decreased total time in level-off for arriving and departing traffic to/from Arlanda. • Decreased total flight route for arriving and departing traffic to/ from Arlanda. • Decreased difference between published structure and route flown. • Increased distinction between civil and military activity. • Increased flexibility in the published flight route system. • Increased accessibility for general aviation. • Conditions for UTM (drones). • Conditions for future system support within the air traffic service. SAARP's implementation will be the biggest airspace reorganisation in the Stockholm area since 1993, when Airspace 98 was commissioned. 37