EU RESEARCH PROJECT ISMAEL DEVELOPS TECHNOLOGY TO AID AIR MOVEMENTS IN BAD VISIBILITY
April 1st, 2009
BY MARK ROWE
EVEN with the technological advances of recent years, fog and other poor weather conditions can still snarl up civil air traffic. But researchers from a project backed by the European Commission claim to be on the verge of commercialising a new traffic control system that will speed up airport movements in bad visibility.
The project, initially funded by the Commission under through the road and air transport safety budgets of the European Union's (EU) sixth framework programme on research, is known by its acronym ISMAEL. This stands for Intelligent ...
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