PROVE

PROVE is the European ATC Pre-Operational Validation & Experimental Trials platform.

Description

The PROVE project is an enabling project that provides a live trials infra-structure in several European operational ACC's and shall support the EVP (European Validation Platform) project that shall integrate and validate air/ground concepts through simulation and trials based on ADS-B, ASAS and sequencing tools.

The intial phase of PROVE was 40% funded by the European Commission and provided the initial infrastructure together with a multi-site shadow mode trials of SYSCO between Malmo and Copenhagens ACCs.

Future trials shall include:

The Operational ACC's that host PROVE are:

Context

The initial PROVE project built up a shadow-mode ATC infrastructure in Malmo's and Copenhagen's operational centres and managed the execution of a shadow mode validation of SYSCO as defined in OLDI2.2 during May 2000, reference EEC Report 354, PROVE SYSCO Trial B Report, Oct 2000. In 2001 PROVE supported LFV in the upgrade of the EATMP HMI with station keeping functionality and supported a live demonstration involving ADS-B equipped aircraft broadcasting on the NEANS network. Considering the success of the first projects but taking into account the re-organisation of the Eurocontrol Experimental Centre over the same period, PROVE is now focused on the provision of the validation infra-structure and shall support third party projects in their live trial validation phase.

Objectives

The objectives of the PROVE project are to:

The ultimate objective is to run "hot" shadow mode trials where the ESCAPE system is being used to control traffic and the "real" system providing backup. This was achieved in ROME in 2003 for the MTCD trials.

Approach

PROVE is based on the ESCAPE platform that is in fact a full ATM system, but designed for simulations. By modifiying ESCAPE to accept live data (FPLs from AFTN, Tracks from Trackers and Estimates from OLDI) and by extending some of the existing features concepts and tools that have been experimented in simulation can quickly be deployed and trialed under live condiditons.

Expected Results

As and enabler, PROVE shall contibute to the accelerated transistion from experimental simulation to implementation in the ACCs by providing a robust and mature, yet flexible for future concepts, trials platform.