Technology driven sustainable strategic planning in air navigation services

Managing and integrating technology in air navigation services (ANS) is an increasing challenge in particular for newly privatized or emerging service providers of various sizes in Europe. Within the next 10-15 years, the sector would have to integrate and deploy new technologies, improve safety, increase cost efficiency and quality of service while protecting environment and aligning to incoming European regulations. The authors propose a novel methodology in strategic planning for ANS, enabling the timely achievement of the aforementioned goals while creating value to the users and owners. The method is technology and performance driven. It models current and target situations, builds the roadmap between and applies a specific to purpose sustainability & performance assessment tool (SPAT), to secure resources necessary for the implementation of the strategic objectives. The paper provides a high level description of the methodology emphasizing on its foundation and theoretical background. It also draws conclusions and identifies issues open to further development.