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Project No. |
TPT 06 2019A
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Project Title |
Enhancing Aviation Effiiciency and Safety via Performance Based Communications and Surveillance
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Project Status |
Project in Implementation
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Publication (if any) |
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Fund Account |
APEC Support Fund
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Sub-fund |
ASF: Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Measures (EELCM)
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Project Year |
2019
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Project Session |
Session 2
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APEC Funding |
62,714
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Co-funding Amount |
32,182
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Total Project Value |
94,896
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Sponsoring Forum |
Transportation Working Group (TPTWG)
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Topics |
Transportation
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Committee |
SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)
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Other Fora Involved |
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Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved |
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Proposing Economy(ies) |
United States
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Co-Sponsoring Economies |
New Zealand; Philippines; Singapore; Chinese Taipei
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Expected Start Date |
01/12/2019
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Expected Completion Date |
31/06/2020
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Project Proponent Name 1 |
Natalie Randolph (wef 28 Sep 2020)
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Job Title 1 |
Not Applicable
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Organization 1 |
US Federal Aviation Administration
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Postal Address 1 |
Not Applicable
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Telephone 1 |
(1-202) 2670237
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Fax 1 |
Not Applicable
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Email 1 |
Natalie.Randolph@faa.gov
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Project Proponent Name 2 |
Not Applicable
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Job Title 2 |
Not Applicable
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Organization 2 |
Not Applicable
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Postal Address 2 |
Not Applicable
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Telephone 2 |
Not Applicable
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Fax 2 |
Not Applicable
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Email 2 |
Not Applicable
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Declaration |
Natalie Randolph
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Project Summary |
The US proposes a two-day Performance Based Communications Surveillance (PBCS) workshop to share best practices for: i) regulators of aircraft operators to establish PBCS policies, specifications and requirements; ii) regulators of air navigation service providers (ANSPs) that implement reduced separation standards, predicated on PBCS requirements to establish PBCS policies, specifications and requirements; iii) ANSPs that implement reduced separation standards predicated on PBCS requirements to provide PBCS compliant services; and iv) aircraft operators to obtain authorization to use reduced separation standards predicated on PBCS. PBCS optimizes airspace use, provides performance level assurance to support the underlying PBCS-predicated separation standards, and mitigates safety risks. It promotes efficiency—safely reducing aircraft spacing and offering direct routes, which supports harmonization and connectivity. If economies do not implement PBCS, they may i) restrict their aircraft operators’ ability to operate in parts of the global aviation network that require PBCS, negatively affecting connectivity, and/or ii) restrict their ANSP’s ability to reduce aircraft spacing. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would self-fund several FAA experts’ travel to the workshop.
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Relevance |
Relevance – Region:
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Asia Pacific Office urges its Members to implement PBCS, and this workshop would enhance the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region’s capability to safely implement this technology and air traffic process that helps expand airspace capacity. It would ensure that APEC aircraft operators flying in other parts of the world could use the most efficient separation standards.
Increasing passenger and cargo volumes transit APEC’s airspace year to year. This demand challenges economies to seek innovative approaches to expand their airspace capacity so that they can take advantage of the economic growth that trade and the aviation sector offer. PBCS, which is not widely implemented in the region, provides an innovative approach to enhance airspace capacity safely. Only three APEC economies have published PBCS implementation plans, with two more economies stating that they comply with ICAO’s PBCS provisions. The workshop would increase PBCS awareness and fill gaps in understanding for those economies that may not be familiar with the relatively new concept. The workshop would explain how the air traffic operations that PBCS enables can safely enhance air traffic efficiency, and how regulators could establish PBCS policies, specifications and requirements for the aircraft operators and ANSPs under their jurisdiction.
The workshop would also highlight how ANSPs can provide PBCS compliant services and monitor their PBCS enabled operations. ICAO and FAA subject matter experts (SMEs) would share best practices to implement the PBCS safety framework. Workshop participants would create a draft PBCS Implementation Plan at the workshop.
For background and context, PBCS is the framework that enables implementation of reduced separation standards. PBCS accomplishes this by ensuring a baseline level of safety and performance through the application of the economy PBCS policies for aircraft operators and ANSPs, and ensuring continued safety and performance through an ongoing monitoring program. PBCS is similar to how Performance Based Navigation (PBN) ensures that the navigation systems are technically safe and perform at a required level (RNP) to support a particular separation or operation. PBCS ensure the communication and surveillance systems are technically safe and perform at a required level (RCP and RSP) to support a particular separation or operation.
Data link services, based on controller pilot data link communication (CPDLC) and automatic dependent surveillance – contract (ADS-C), provide communications that are intended to support safer and more efficient air traffic management and increase airspace capacity. There are different and emerging communication and surveillance technologies for the air, ground, and network that enable data link services. These different technologies may be used to support various air traffic management (ATM) operations.
The PBCS concept is intended to provide objective operational criteria to evaluate and monitor various technologies in their ability to support specific ATM operations. The core of the PBCS concept is the required communication performance (RCP) and required surveillance performance (RSP) specifications, which are developed to characterize the communication and surveillance capability and performance needed to support a specific ATM operation.
The RCP and RSP specifications are intended to be applied globally for identical or similar ATM operations in order to reduce training requirements and errors resulting from confusion in operations across airspace boundaries. This ensures that the operational communication and surveillance capabilities will be conducted in an acceptably safe manner wherever the respective ATM operation is conducted around the world.
The RCP and RSP specifications are contained in ICAO Document 9869, the PBCS Manual, and ICAO provisions for particular RCP and/or RSP that are required for an ATM operation are contained in Annex 11 and ICAO Document 4444.
Relevance – Eligibility and Fund Priorities:
The workshop would have a positive environmental impact because PBCS enables the implementation of reduced separation standards, which would increase the percentage of flights that can fly on routes and at altitudes that are the most efficient for flight time and for fuel consumption. PBCS promotes a more efficient transportation pattern, which would reduce energy intensity levels. Building economies’ capacity to implement PBCS will thus help contribute to APEC’s aggregate energy intensity reduction goal of 45% by 2035, which was agreed to at the APEC Leaders Meeting in Honolulu in 2011. The use of these reduced separation standards would facilitate the expanded use of fuel-saving operational procedures such as user-preferred routes and the
Dynamic Airborne Reroute Procedures (DARP). This could significantly reduce fuel burn and greenhouse gas emissions by improving the flexibility of the aircraft movement in the airspace that PBCS helps facilitate.
Relevance – Capacity Building:
We would invite all APEC member economies. The workshop would align with the objective to help member economies to participate more fully in the regional economy. It would ensure that economies understand how to implement PBCS so that they do not inadvertently restrict their aircraft operators’ capabilities to serve parts of the global aviation network that require PBCS. It would also help ensure that economies are knowledgeable of the necessary technology, procedures and monitoring to implement new air traffic operations, such as reduced separation standards. PBCS implementation in APEC is skewed toward developed economies. This project would promote equitable development and guide economies without PBCS to learn how they can optimize their airspace and safely increase capacity with PBCS.
SMEs from FAA, ICAO and aviation industry organizations like the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) would participate to ensure a collaborative approach to capacity building that complements the work of other relevant global institutions. These stakeholders’ participation would also ensure the workshop is consistent with the relevant technical and sectoral specialist organizations. PBCS is an innovative safety framework that provides a new approach to solving an existing airspace capacity problem in the APEC region. Air traffic in the APEC region is increasing at substantial rates, and experts predict the double-digit growth experienced over the last decade to continue in the future. By enhancing APEC economies’ ability to safely decrease space between aircraft, the project would help economies increase their airspace capacity—which enables economies to participate more fully in the economy by moving more people and goods. |
Objectives |
The workshop would deliver technical presentations to provide PBCS information, share best practices to establish/implement PBCS and identify additional resources for PBCS information. The workshop would tailor information to assist to build capacity within: i) APEC civil aviation regulators so that they can establish PBCS policies, specifications and requirements for their economy aircraft operators and ANSPs; ii) APEC ANSPs to provide PBCS compliant services and monitor their PBCS program, and iii) APEC economy aircraft operators to participate in a PBCS program. |
Alignment |
Alignment - APEC:
APEC Joint Ministerial Statements, as well as TPTWG Policy Direction letters, directed modal experts groups to develop projects that will reduce emissions across all modes of transportation. PBCS implementation supports more direct routes, which reduces aircraft emissions. This project also directly addresses the Transportation and Energy Ministerial Action Statement from 2011 whereby it significantly contributes to promoting regional economic integration by harmonizing international aviation technical regulations, and expanding and promoting the use of technologies specific to air traffic navigation and management. The project aligns with the APEC goal of conforming to international standards and best practices for managing and safely overseeing the PBCS implementation process at the government level. The implementation of PBCS translates into increased aircraft efficiency, reduced emissions, and greater reliability and confidence in air transportation as a primary means of economic growth through tourism and trade.
Alignment – Forum: How does the project align with your forum’s work plan/ strategic plan?
This project aligns with the APEC Transportation Working Group’s Proposed Work plan for 2019, specifically the objectives to promote:
i) Modernization of transport: As new technologies to enhance air traffic operations continue to emerge, there has been a shift to setting requirements based on the necessary performance rather than on specific technologies. Along with Performance Based Navigation (PBN), PBCS is an essential component of a modernized air traffic system to allow diversity in technologies that are designed to support the same operations, while ensuring the performance required to support airspace efficiency and safety is achieved.
ii) Standardization of technological interoperability and safety practices in cooperation with relevant international organizations like ICAO: The project would convey best practices regarding how to develop a PBCS policy, specifications, and requirements that align with the ICAO PBCS framework. The project would include participation from ICAO in the planning and execution of the workshop. iii) Capacity building for enhanced aviation safety: Modern air traffic control is dependent on many sub-systems within the aircraft, ground, and network. PBCS enables a holistic approach to ensuring safety by focusing on the end-to-end performance that is needed to achieve a particular operation. The PBCS framework provides a set of safety and performance requirements that must be met prior to participation, but emphasizes the importance of continuous monitoring to ensure those requirements continue to be met. |
TILF/ASF Justification |
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Beneficiaries and Outputs |
Outputs:
The main output of the project is to host a workshop to build PBCS capacity. There are some associated outputs described below:
1. Dissemination of PBCS introductory information: Prior to the workshop, the Project Overseer (PO) would work with relevant PBCS experts in FAA and in international organizations (e.g. ICAO) to determine whether there is material that would be beneficial to distribute prior to the workshop so that all workshop attendees have preliminary information on the basics of PBCS. This would help ensure that workshop attendees have some context regarding PBCS prior to the detailed workshop discussions.
2. Pre Workshop Survey: The PO would work with stakeholders to develop a pre-workshop survey to gauge APEC economies’ familiarity with PBCS as well as the status of their economy’s PBCS policy, specifications, requirements and monitoring program. This survey would be designed to identify, to the extent possible, potential challenges to PBCS implementation in the economies attending the workshop. The workshop speakers/panelists/presenters would receive the survey results prior to the workshop so that they have a general understanding of the audience to whom they would deliver best practices, and understand if any modifications in their presentation are required to increase the likelihood that economies will be able to make use of the workshop information in their efforts to implement PBCS.
3. PBCS Workshop: The actual workshop would take place over a two-day period and feature a combination of presentations, panel discussions and remarks. SMEs from the U.S., ICAO, IATA and NBAA would share best practices for PBCS implementation.
4. The notional workshop agenda is as follows:
Day One
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Opening Remarks
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
ICAO Data Link Introduction, a Necessary Precursor to PBCS: Where does data link fit it in the Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP) and Aviation System Block Upgrade (ASBU) framework?
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Networking Break
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Data link implementation and planning in the APEC region
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Data link implementation: ICAO provisions, guidance material, overview
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Networking Break (to feature Women in Transportation Discussion, highlighting opportunities for women in PBCS development and implementation)
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Data link elements and role of stakeholders – reflections of an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP)
Day Two
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Performance-based communication and surveillance (PBCS): ICAO provisions, guidance material, overview
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM
What does PBCS enable?
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Networking Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
PBCS implementation – Economies
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
PBCS implementation – ANSPs
11:45 PM - 12:15 PM
PBCS implementation – Operators
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Post-implementation monitoring
2:30 PM -3:00 PM
Networking Break
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
PBCS implementation task list
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Conclusions, resources, distribution of feedback survey
5. End of Workshop Survey: The PO would work with stakeholders to develop a concise workshop survey to issue on the final workshop day to gather feedback from participants. It would repeat some of the pre-workshop survey questions (i.e. those that were designed to elicit information about attendee’s degree of familiarity of PBCS) so that the PO could identify the immediate impact of the workshop.
6. Dissemination of final report with best practices: The PO would develop a final report to include the presentations delivered at the workshop as well as an executive summary of the workshop discussion and any recommendations for additional APEC follow on activities/actions to promote PBCS implementation in APEC economies. The final report would likely be 100 pages in length and include technical information presented in a way that is understandable for the target audience of civil aviation regulators, aircraft operators and ANSPs. The final report would be prepared in compliance with APEC publication requirements and published in the APEC Publications Database.
7. Post Workshop Survey: The PO would distribute an additional survey following the workshop (likely six months to a year after) to identify:
· Did the workshop participants increase their understanding/familiarity with PBCS?
· Are the participants familiar with additional resources to consult for PBCS information?
· Have civil aviation regulators established a PBCS policy with PBCS specifications and requirements for their economy aircraft operators and where relevant, ANSPs?
· Have civil aviation regulators developed a plan to implement their PBCS policy?
· Do APEC economy with ANSPs that provide performance-based operations have PBCS compliant services?
· Have APEC economies developed plans to expand use, or implementation, of fuel-saving operational procedures such as performance-based separations, user-preferred routes and the Dynamic Airborne Reroute Procedures (DARP), including acquisition of necessary equipment?
Outcomes:
The project outcomes could include:
Outcome 1: The workshop attendees increase their understanding/familiarity with PBCS.
Outcome 2: The workshop attendees are familiar with additional resources to consult for PBCS information guidance/best practices.
Outcome 3: APEC economy civil aviation regulators establish a PBCS policy with PBCS specifications and requirements for their economy’s aircraft operators and where relevant, ANSPs.
Outcome 4: APEC economy civil aviation regulators develop a plan to implement their PBCS policy.
Outcome 5: APEC economy ANSPs have PBCS compliant services.
Outcome 6: APEC economies developed plans to expand use or implementation of fuel-saving operational procedures such as performance-based separations, user-preferred routes and the Dynamic Airborne Reroute Procedures (DARP), including acquisition of necessary equipment.
Beneficiaries: The project participants would include all APEC economies, and more specifically, representatives from their civil aviation regulator, ANSP and aircraft operators. These entities would also be the output users. The PO would work with stakeholders from the FAA, ICAO, IATA, NBAA and other relevant organizations to identify who should attend the workshop, which would be based on a combination of their technical experience and knowledge base of data link and PBCS, as well as their decision making capabilities. The goal would be to ensure that those who attend the workshop are able to further disseminate the information learned to colleagues in their organization whether it be the civil aviation regulator, ANSP or aircraft operator. These three categories of organizations are the direct project beneficiaries. The indirect beneficiaries would be the flying public who could take advantage of more direct flight routes as well as the world overall that would benefit from reduced emissions vis-a-vie reduced aircraft spacing.
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Dissemination |
The workshop would be open to all APEC economies to attend. The PO would share material presented at the workshop and the final report with each APEC economy representative that participates in the workshop. Further dissemination of this information at the domestic level, within economies, would be the responsibility of those who attended the workshop. The final report would also be available via the APEC Publications Database.
The PO would include an agenda item for the subsequent TPTWG aviation expert group meeting to provide a read out of the project and its outcomes. The FAA would also seek to discuss the project and its outcomes at relevant aviation meetings in the region—for example at air traffic and aviation safety meetings sponsored by ICAO as well as the annual Directors General of Civil Aviation Conference to ensure long-term sustainability of building PBCS capacity in the region. There is no intention to sell any of the project outputs. |
Gender |
The aviation sector in general has a gender imbalance; therefore, participation in this project is open to male and female participants alike and economies are encouraged to nominate participants from both genders to be a part of the workshop. Economies would be encouraged to nominate female employees of the civil aviation regulator, ANSP and aircraft operators to participate in the workshop to gain new knowledge and share work experiences on PBCS implementation activities.
Female participation in the workshop would advance the Skills and Capacity Building and Innovation and Technology pillars under APEC’s commitment to promote women’s economic empowerment. The women that attend the workshop would receive information that educates them to advance a technical concept, in this case PBCS. The workshop is designed to provide APEC economies with the understanding they need to determine how to implement PBCS in their economies—the women participants would benefit from this information as it would promote their role in implementation of an innovative way to safely reduce spacing between aircraft. The PO is a female and the workshop would feature participation from FAA subject matter experts that are also female as the FAA would strive to achieve gender parity in workshop speakers and the audience members. Additionally, FAA would strive to arrange opportunities for PBCS SMEs that are female to discuss science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) opportunities for women with the attending economies. The PO is committed to collecting sex disaggregated data for all speakers and participants (not only those funded by APEC) at the project event. This data will be included when submitting a Completion Report to the Secretariat upon completion of the project, as well as providing guidance to future POs on their own gender parity targets. |
Work Plan |
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Deliverables |
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December 2019 |
PO would arrange a kick off call with the stakeholders from the FAA, ICAO, IATA, NBAA and any organizations that would present/speak at the workshop. |
Notes from the kick off call as well as a timeline of action items and designated action item lead. |
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December 2019 |
PO would develop initial workshop planning documents. |
Draft workshop agenda, invitations, presentation templates |
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January 2020 |
PO would work with relevant stakeholders:
- to finalize and issue workshop invitations;
- develop event marketing material to disseminate to potential workshop participants;
- confirm workshop venue space;
- identify and confirm speakers to participate in the workshop;
- market event;
- track RSVPs; and,
- finalize workshop agenda. |
Final invitations, marketing material, RSVP tracker, final agenda |
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March 2020 |
PO would disseminate read ahead material and pre-workshop survey to workshop participants.
PO would convene a workshop planning conference call amongst workshop speakers/panelists/presenters.
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Read ahead material, pre-workshop survey |
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April 2020 |
PO to submit initial APEC Project Monitoring Report |
APEC Project Monitoring Report |
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April 2020 |
PO would manage event in coordination with stakeholders, including dissemination of feedback survey on day two of the workshop. |
Completed feedback surveys, workshop notes |
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May 2020 |
PO to draft and submit Final Report with all supporting documents to the APEC Secretariat for endorsement by the forum and final submission. |
Final Report |
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August 2020 |
PO to draft and submit APEC Project Completion Report with all supporting documents to the APEC Secretariat for endorsement |
APEC Project Completion Report |
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June 2021 |
PO would survey participants and conduct research to understand outcomes achieved.
PO to participate in the Long Term Evaluation of APEC projects conducted by the APEC Secretariat |
Project outcome results
Response to APEC Secretariat’s Long Term Evaluation Inquiry | |
Risks |
Risk 1: Last minute speaker cancellation
Mitigation strategy: The PO would require that speakers/panelists/presenters advise no less than three weeks prior to the workshop if they would not be able to fulfill their workshop role. Understanding that some unanticipated conflicts may occur at short notice, the PO would require that any cancellations within three weeks of the workshop include an alternate speaker/panelist/presenter to ensure that the necessary PBCS expertise is present at the workshop.
Risk 2: Duplication of content in presentations
Mitigation strategy: The PO would convene a meeting between the workshop speakers/panelists/presenters at least two weeks in advance of the workshop to discuss the experts’ respective workshop content, resolve any duplication and ensure that all the participants are aware of their roles and responsibilities at the workshop.
Risk 3: Economies are unable to apply knowledge learned during the workshop
Mitigation strategy: The PO recognizes that while participants may understand the concepts and information shared at the workshop, translating that information into practice and implementation in their economy may entail significant challenges. The PO would work with stakeholders and partners involved in delivering the workshop to try to prevent this risk from materializing. Mitigation efforts would include:
- Issuing a pre workshop survey to understand the extent to which economies have foundational features in place to support PBCS implementation;
- Ensuring that workshop speakers receive the pre workshop survey results so that they understand their audience;
- Encouraging speakers to explain the ‘why’ behind PBCS implementation—in other words, not just what the best practices include, but the inputs that go into them so that participants understand how they can adapt the best practices to their local context.
Risk 4: Differing PBCS interests and/or knowledge base amongst participants
Mitigation strategy: The PO would work with stakeholders to design a workshop agenda that balances the likely PBCS interests from the civil aviation regulator, ANSP and aircraft operator perspectives. In this conversation, the PO would work with the workshop planning team to identify whether concurrent breakout sessions designed for the respective categories of attendees (i.e. regulators, ANSP, aircraft operators) would be beneficial to include in the workshop agenda.
The PO would also work with stakeholders to determine whether there is material that would be beneficial to distribute prior to the workshop so that all workshop attendees have preliminary information on the basics of PBCS. This would help ensure that workshop attendees have some context regarding PBCS prior to the detailed workshop discussions.
Risk 5: Low attendance at the workshop
Mitigation strategy: The PO would work with the network of FAA Senior Representatives stationed in APEC economies to advertise the workshop opportunity to stakeholders sought to participate in the workshop. The outreach would identify the benefits of the stakeholders’ participation in the event to encourage participation. The PO would also work with ICAO, IATA and NBAA to identify if they would also be able to help promote the workshop.
Risk 6: Appropriate technical/venue set up for the workshop Mitigation strategy: The PO would communicate with the conference space point of contact at the venue in writing and verbally to provide guidance on the workshop set up/technical needs (e.g. presentation display, audio/visual, room set up, etc.). The PO would do a walkthrough of the space with the venue point of contact at least a day prior to the event as well as in advance of the workshop start time on the day of the event.
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Monitoring and Evaluation |
The PO would measure the extent of the workshop’s reach in terms of:
· Number of APEC economies that attended:
Target: 21
· Number of workshop attendees by economy
Target: 2, for a total of 42 representatives from APEC economies
· Number of female audience members
Target: 21
· Number of female presenters
Target: 50%
The PO would distribute an additional survey following the workshop (likely six months to a year after) to evaluate the following anticipated outcomes:
· Did the workshop attendees increase their understanding/familiarity with PBCS?
Target: 42 attendees answer affirmatively
· Are the workshop attendees familiar with additional resources to consult for PBCS information?
Target: 42 attendees answer affirmatively
. Have APEC economy civil aviation regulators established a PBCS policy with PBCS specifications and requirements for their economy’s aircraft operators and where relevant, ANSPs?
Target: 15 economies
· Have APEC economy civil aviation regulators developed a plan to implement their PBCS policy?
Target: 15 economies
· Do APEC economy ANSPs have PBCS compliant services?
Target: 15 economies
· Have APEC economies developed plans to expand use or implementation of fuel-saving operational procedures such as performance-based separations, user-preferred routes and the Dynamic Airborne Reroute Procedures (DARP), including acquisition of necessary equipment?
Target: 15 economies The PO would also conduct follow on conversations with the PBCS experts consulted in preparing and executing the workshop (from FAA, ICAO, IATA, NBAA, etc.) to learn whether they have noted expanded PBCS implementation progress in the APEC region following the workshop.
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Linkages |
This would be a joint project between the TPTWG Aviation Experts Group (AEG) and the Energy Working Group (EWG). This project also utilizes the technical knowledge and experience of the FAA, ICAO, IATA and NBAA. At the conclusion of the workshop, the PO would provide the workshop materials to the APEC Secretariat to post on APEC’s website for cross-fora viewing and use.
There is no existing work within APEC to build capacity on PBCS so the project would not duplicate previous or ongoing APEC initiatives. However, PBCS is complementary to PBN for overall performance of Communications, Navigation and Surveillance, and the TPTWG did previously support PBN capacity building in APEC. PBCS ensures a baseline level of safety and performance vis a vie application of a PBCS policy for aircraft operators and ANSPs. Further, it ensures continued safety and performance through an ongoing monitoring program.
There are limited PBCS capacity building resources in the global aviation community and this workshop would help fill that gap. This project would be completed in coordination with international organizations such as ICAO, whose Asia Pacific office views PBCS capacity building as a need in the region. It is a model APEC project that brings developed and developing APEC economies together in support of the TPTWG’s priorities to promote a modernized transportation systems, standardization and interoperability of technology and safety practices and enhanced aviation safety and reduce aviation emissions. |
Sustainability |
The PO and the stakeholders involved in planning and delivering the workshop would encourage the APEC economies to nominate workshop attendees that have either decision-making capabilities and/or the necessary technical background to a) convey the best practices learned upon return to their economy and b) advance PBCS implementation in their respective economy. The workshop attendees would receive the final report that includes the best practices conveyed by PBCS workshop speakers/panelists/presenters. The economies would be familiar with the PBCS expertise that exists in fellow APEC member economies as well as at ICAO. If economies would like, they can try to pursue additional assistance as they seek to implement PBCS. The economies could also raise PBCS questions and/or follow on project ideas at future AEG meetings. If sufficient support exists, the AEG could look at building on the outputs and outcomes from this project via a follow on effort. As noted above, the PO would measure outcome progress via a post workshop survey, follow on conversations with the PBCS experts who helped plan and support the workshop as well as via conversations at subsequent AEG meetings where the PO would enquire whether economies have PBCS implementation updates to share with the group. The purpose of the follow on survey would be to understand the extent to which the workshop led to the anticipated outcomes described in section ten of this proposal. The PO would review the results in coordination with SMEs from FAA and the other SMEs involved in the workshop (e.g. from ICAO, NBAA and/or IATA) and discuss the results at future APEC Transportation Working Group Meetings. The results could help inform whether there are additional efforts that are necessary to help increase the likelihood of achieving any workshop outcomes that were not realized following the workshop. |
Project Overseers |
Ms. Katherine Rawls, Foreign Affairs Specialist with the FAA’s Office of International Affairs would serve as the PO for this project. Between her current role and prior position with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Ms. Rawls has worked with APEC economies for six years. This work has included support for two prior APEC funded projects (TPT 03-2014A, Air Traffic Management Emissions Reduction Project and TPT 05-2015A, Enhancing Aviation Connectivity and Emissions Reduction via Implementation of Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Assistance Program). Ms. Rawls has experience with programming and managing foreign assistance projects through their lifecycle, to include evaluating their impact upon completion. She has experience in planning and executing large aviation themed conferences, workshops and informational visits for delegations from across the APEC region. Ms. Rawls also has prior policy and budget analyst experience that included program oversight and management responsibilities. |
Cost Efficiency |
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Direct Labour |
This is an estimated cost associated with:
i) managing the project through its lifecycle to include completing all of the project preparation material, managing the workshop and completing the post workshop deliverables; and
ii) provision of subject matter expertise in preparation for the workshop and at the workshop. |
Waivers |
We kindly request a waiver that would enable us to provide advance payment to travel-eligible economies’ airfare and per diem costs, as they would need to pay those costs upfront. This waiver is integral to ensuring that travel eligible economy participants are able to attend. |
Are there any supporting document attached? |
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