24. Calls on the Commission to lift the regulatory barriers to satellite-based air traffic surveillance in order to enable life-saving services for EU citizens, and asks the International Telecommunication Union to make the necessary spectrum allocation, as the ICAO has identified satellite ADS-B as the one technology that can assist flight tracking, also for air traffic management (ATM) purposes, outside of the most densely populated areas, where other forms of terrestrial ATM surveillance technologies are limited; stresses that when implementing ADS-B ...[+++]the needs of all airspace users must be considered and inter-operability between alternative technologies must be ensured in order to avoid safety and security breaches; emphasises that it could help governments, air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and airlines in Europe and around the world to increase air traffic management efficiency and capacity, thus reducing aviation emissions, and significantly enhance aviation safety, all while providing European airspace with another layer of surveillance that could augment the current one;

24. Calls on the Commission to lift the regulatory barriers to satellite-based air traffic surveillance in order to enable life-saving services for EU citizens, and asks the International Telecommunication Union to make the necessary spectrum allocation, as ICAO has identified satellite ADS-B as the one technology that can assist flight tracking, also for air traffic management (ATM) purposes, outside of the most densely populated areas, where other forms of terrestrial ATM surveillance technologies are limited; stresses that it could help governments, air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and airlines in Europe and around the world ...[+++]to increase air traffic management efficiency and capacity, thus reducing aviation emissions, and significantly enhance aviation safety, all while lowering infrastructure costs and providing European airspace with another layer of surveillance that could augment the current one;

Apart from raising public awareness and increasing the performance and competitiveness of alternative modes of transport, these include notably research , air traffic management and energy taxation .

Increasing operational capacity and safety of the air transport system: the objective is to optimise airspace and airport utilisation in order to reduce flight delays, through an integrated air traffic management system (Single European Sky).The research activities are focusing on on-board and ground communication, navigation and surveillance systems and the introduction of new concepts, including the free-flight concept, in the future European ATM (air traffic management) system.

In any case, air passengers face problems that largely differ from those encountered by other passengers, so that there is little advantage in devising solutions in parallel.

The breakdown of the Community shared-cost EURET projects by transport modes is as follows: MARITIME TRANSPORT Theme 13 - Design and assessment of a regional traffic management system - RTIS - - Design and assessment of a vessel traffic management system - TAIE Theme 23 - Optimization of Manpower in Maritime Transport; Improvement of competitiveness in Community maritime transport through implementing advanced technology - ATOMOS Theme 24 - Human factors in the Man/Ship system for the European fleet - HFEF COMBINED TRANSPORT Theme 22 The smart Intermodal European Transfer - SIMET RAILWAYS TRANSPORT Theme 12 European Rail Traffic Managem ...[+++]ent System - ERTMS AIR TRANSPORT Theme 14 ATM European Group for Improvement of Scenarios - AEGIS European Aeronautical Telecommunications Network - EURATN Theme 15 Specification for Working Positions in Future Air Traffic Control - SWIFT MARITIME TRANSPORT Maritime Transport is still by far (+/- 90%) the most important tool for the Community's international Trade.