Final Project Results Report

This report expresses our vision on the future for ATM sector in Europe from an institutional perspective. It describes our view on potential pathways towards new institutional designs for the European ATM sector. These institutional elements will likely include more competitive dynamics that should lead to performance improvements on various ATM key performance areas. We will also investigate ways of implementation. This involves understanding distributional impacts and possibly the need for government oversight and enforcement for effectively implementing proposed changes. This report will also discuss potential drawbacks and ways of addressing perverse incentives in new institutional designs. This can include ways of overcoming potential market concentration of ATM service provision in the hands of just a few ANSPs. The report also contains a concise executive summary which outlines the main idea of the project, the approach taken, the main results and policy recommendations that we can derive from it.