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ABBREVIA TIONS AN D EXPLANA TIONS LFV 2018 ABBREV
IATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS A6. Alliance within SESAR focusing on technological development. Fifteen air navigation service providers and two associated members make up A6. A and B events. An international system for categorising incidents according to their danger to aviation safety. ANS. Air Navigation Services. ANSP. Air Navigation Services Provider. ATCC. Air Traffic Control Centre. ATM. Air Traffic Management. ATS. Air Traffic Services. BOREALIS. The Borealis Alliance is an association consisting of air navigation service providers in nine countries in northern Europe: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia. Operational concepts for collaboration. CANSO. Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation. International organisation for collaboration in air traffic management. CNS. Communication, Navigation, Surveillance. COOPANS Cooperation between ANSPs Consists of the air navigation services of Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Austria, Portugal and Croatia. Joint technological development. DK-SE-FAB. Common Danish-Swedish airspace. LFV and Denmark’s Naviair provide shared air navigation services in this airspace through the jointly owned company NUAC. EASA. European Aviation Safety Agency. EN ROUTE. The stretch of a flight between airports. Managed by a control centre. EUROCONTROL. A European organisation for aviation safety in the airspace, with approximately 40 countries as members. Eurocontrol coordinates European air traffic. They have no legislative powers, but work towards harmonisation and developing air traffic services in the member countries. FAB stands for Functional Airspace Block. The Danish-Swedish airspace is a FAB. IATA. International Air Transport Association. Collaboration organisation for airlines. ICAO. International Civil Aviation Organization. A UN aviation agency INEA. Innovation and Networks Executive Agency. EU body for the development of transport infrastructure in Europe. MSB. Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency NUAC. Nordic Upper Area Control. Subsidiary of LFV and the Danish air traffic service Naviair, commissioned to perform air traffic management in the joint Danish-Swedish airspace. ODESTA. Optimal Design of Terminal Airspace is a four-year project using a logistical approach involving the optimisation of routes and sectors in the Stockholm area. RAT methodology. Risk Analysis Tool. A method for systematically classifying aviation safety-related incidents. RP. Reference Period. The EU sets objectives for air navigation service providers during a reference period. RPAS. Remotely Piloted Aircraft System. Unmanned aircraft, also known as drones. RTC. Remote Tower Centre. The control centre for RTS in Sundsvall. LFV is building a new RTC at Arlanda. RTS. Remote Tower Services, remote air traffic management or remotely operated towers. SDATS. Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions AB. A company owned by LFV and Saab for developing, selling and performing remote air traffic management. SDM. SESAR Deployment Alliance. Industry group for reforming aviation in Europe. SES. Single European Sky. The EU’s efforts to reduce the number of airspaces in Europe, which are all currently national with few exceptions. SESAR. Single European Sky ATM Research. A Joint European programme to increase airspace capacity whilst maintaining safety, reducing the environmental impact of aviation and halving the cost of air traffic management. SWEAO. Swedish En route Airspace Optimisation. WAM. Wide Area Multilateration. Surveillance sensors that aid in determining an aircraft’s position. 75