ATRD Symposium
ATRD Symposium 2026 Sponsors:
US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium
Starting in 2025, the ATM R&D Seminar and the International Conference on Research in Air Transportation are combined into an annual event called the US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium.
The Symposium includes all the features of the previous conferences, including:
- Technical sessions with peer-reviewed technical papers
- Plenary talks by government and industry leaders
- Doctoral student symposium
- Tutorials on topical subjects
- And more!
The first Symposium was held in Prague, Czech Republic, from June 24-27 2025.
History of the ATM Seminar
The Federal Aviation Administration and EUROCONTROL have jointly organized an international seminar for Air Traffic Management Research and Development (ATM R&D) since 1997. These seminars were held every two years, alternating between the USA and Europe, and have become the top event for ATM researchers.
The ATM R&D Seminars are particularly important in view of the need to agree and develop solutions that are globally relevant, encompassing SESAR, NextGen and other international programs. The seminars promote international collaboration, create and reinforce relationships between leading ATM experts and researchers world-wide, and encourage discussion and consensus on major issues.
ATM is defined in the ICAO ATM Global Concept document as "the dynamic, integrated management of air traffic and airspace - safely, economically, and efficiently - through the provision of facilities and seamless services in collaboration with all parties". ATM therefore encompasses airspace organization and management, flow and capacity management and en-route, terminal and airport air traffic control.
The solutions to today's and future challenges are being addressed right now in research and development labs around the world. It is cutting edge material like this that is presented and discussed at the ATM R&D Seminar.
There have been 16 USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminars/ATRD Symposiums resulting in an archive of more than 850 peer-reviewed papers that are available on this website. This represents one of the most valuable and widely-used records of ATM research available.
Further read
ATRD Symposium Themes
Air traffic flow management and optimization
4-D Trajectory planning, prediction, and management
Separation assurance and safety nets
Complexity science, analytics and big data for ATM
Integrated airport/airside operations
Economics, finance and policy
ATM performance measurement and management
Weather in ATM
Human Factors
Environment and energy efficiency
Advanced communication, surveillance and navigation
Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems
Safety, resilience and security
2026 ATRD Committee
Dirk Schaefer
Europe General Symposium Chair
EUROCONTROL
Eric Neiderman
U.S. General Symposium Chair
Federal Aviation Administration
Program Committee
Europe
- Hartmut Fricke, TU Dresden, Germany (Doctoral Chair)
- Michael Schultz, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany (Tutorial Chair)
- Aurélie Arntzen, University of Southern Norway
- Tatjana Bolic, U. of Westminster, UK
- Lorenzo Castelli, University of Trieste, Italy
- Ramon Dalmau-Codina, EUROCONTROL
- Jose Miguel de Pablo, CRIDA/Enaire, Spain
- Daniel Delahaye, ENAC, France
- Luis Delgado, U. of Westminster, UK
- Nicolas Durand, ENAC, France
- Joost Ellerbroek, TU Delft, Netherlands
- Peter Hecker, TU Braunschweig, Germany
- Jacco Hoekstra, TU Delft, Netherlands
- Eric Hoffman, EUROCONTROL
- Gokhan Inalhan, Cranfield University, UK
- Dominik Janisch, Austro Control
- Radosav Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Jakub Kraus, Czech Technical University
- Vladimir Kuran, Prague Airport, Czech Republic
- Javier Lopez, Boeing, Spain
- Guglielmo Lulli, Lancaster University, UK
- José Luis Muñoz, Univsitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Fedja Netjasov, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Xavier Prats, UPC, Spain
- Jose J. Ramasco, Spanish National Research Council
- Marta Sanchez, CRIDA/Enaire, Spain
- Christiane Schmidt, Linköping University, Sweden
- Manuel Fernando Soler, U Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Sybert Stroeve, NLR, Netherlands
- Georg Trausmuth, Frequentis, Austria
- Massimilliano Zanin, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
United States
- Max Li, University of Michigan (Communication Chair)
- David Lovell, UMD (Doctoral Chair)
- Yu Zhang, USF (Tutorial Chair)
- Kenneth Allendoerfer, FAA/ANG
- Hamsa Balakrishnan, MIT
- Christopher Dorbian, FAA/AEE
- Martin Durbin, FAA/ANG
- Alexander Estes, UMD
- Tara Gibson, FAA
- Mark Hansen, UC Berkeley
- Dan Howell, The Regulus Group
- James Jones, MIT LL
- Peter Kostiuk, Robust Analytics
- Joseph Post, USF
- Almira Ramadani, FAA/ATO
- Tom Reynolds, MIT LL
- Akbar Sultan, NASA/HQ
- Dengfeng Sun, Purdue University
- Craig Wanke, MITRE CAASD
- Peng Wei, GWU
- Seth Young, The Aviation Planning Group
Asia
- Sameer Alam, NTU, Singapore (Communication Chair)
- Lishuai Li, City University of Hong Kong
- Xiaoqian Sun, Beihang University, China
- Yanjun Wang, Nanjing University of Aero/Astro, China
Australia
- Jesper Bronsvoort, AirServices Australia
- Annie Liang, RMIT University
2026 Venue
Delft, Netherlands
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