EUROPE'S NETWORK MANAGER 20 YEARS'IN THE MAKING

摘要

"Unacceptable levels of congestion and delay in the 1980s - caused by unremitting traffic growth - prompted European transport ministers to create a Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU) to ease a significant problem and respond to public pressure as a pure national approach was obviously not sufficient to address the delay challenge,"says Frank Brenner, Director General of EUROCONTROL. Within five years, EUROCONTROL had established a unique collaborative venture involving airspace users, military interests, air navigation service providers and airports. Today, the single management centre represents 41 European countries working together to balance demand and supply throughout the region's upper airspace to support safe and efficient air travel. The only other comparable facility worldwide is the FAA Central Command Center in Virginia, in the US.