COMPAIR
15041
From 2016 to 2018
TML investigated options for liberalisation and competition in air traffic control within the framework of the Single European Sky programme. TML led the project and formulated market design options, assessed the impacts with economic models, and developed a vision for implementing the proposed changes.
Air traffic management and control has long been a national monopoly. Due to the need for fairly heavy infrastructure investment, air traffic control (and related services) was also typically seen as a natural monopoly. This is now changing. The European Union has been closely monitoring the evolution around air traffic control since the start of the Single European Sky programme. In addition, technological evolution is reducing the need for heavy investment in infrastructure. As a result, air traffic control is evolving more towards a service industry and the natural monopoly character of the sector is being questioned. For this reason, it’s time to look at the possible impacts of the liberalisation of and introduction of competition in this sector.
In the COMPAIR project, we studied different institutional choices through which to introduce elements of competition into the provision of en-route air traffic control. We undertook the following steps to this end:
TML was in charge of this project and was also specifically responsible for the following tasks:
For more information, visit the official project website or watch this this concise video.
Air traffic management and control has long been a national monopoly. Due to the need for fairly heavy infrastructure investment, air traffic control (and related services) was also typically seen as a natural monopoly. This is now changing. The European Union has been closely monitoring the evolution around air traffic control since the start of the Single European Sky programme. In addition, technological evolution is reducing the need for heavy investment in infrastructure. As a result, air traffic control is evolving more towards a service industry and the natural monopoly character of the sector is being questioned. For this reason, it’s time to look at the possible impacts of the liberalisation of and introduction of competition in this sector.
In the COMPAIR project, we studied different institutional choices through which to introduce elements of competition into the provision of en-route air traffic control. We undertook the following steps to this end:
- Formulation of a number of options.
- Definition of a framework on the basis of which we assessed possible impacts for the different options.
- Development of economic and network simulation models to assess these effects (quantitatively).
- Estimation of the feasibility of the institutional choices and their support among different actors in the market.
- Proposing a vision of possible transition paths to realise the optimal market design.
TML was in charge of this project and was also specifically responsible for the following tasks:
- Proposing and testing alternative market design options.
- The quantitative assessment of impacts by using economic models.
- Formulating conclusions and a vision to effectively implement the proposed changes.
For more information, visit the official project website or watch this this concise video.
