1.3: Aviation research agenda

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Aviation has dramatically transformed society over the past 100 years. The economic and social benefits throughout the world have been immense in shrinking the planet with the efficient and fast transportation of people and goods. However, encouraging challenges must be faced to cope with the expected demand, but also to meet social sensitivities.

These challenges have led to the formation of the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) to define a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) for aeronautics and air transport in Europe ACARE [1]. The goals set by the SRA have had a clear influence on current aeronautical research, delivering important initiatives and benefits for the aviation industry, including among others the Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative, which pursues a greener aviation, and the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Joint Undertaking, which pursues a more efficient ATM system. Initiatives in the same direction have been also driven in USA within the Next Generation of air transportation system (NextGen).