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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Background
EUROCONTROL’s Airspace Strategy for ECAC incorporates operational improvements to terminal airspace design. Even though it may be difficult and inappropriate to attempt to divide en-route and terminal airspace operations, an understanding of both is essential when designing a terminal airspace with a view to improving the capacity of the overall ATM system.
A document concerning the design of terminal airspace structures cannot be definitive because each structure has unique characteristics and evolves at a different rate. The development of a terminal airspace is also affected by a variety of parameters and these may vary to a large degree. These factors as well as differing policies adopted by States result in a multiplicity of design criteria. Nevertheless, there are many areas of commonality and these have provided a basis for this document.
Much material regarding terminal airspace design is available in several ICAO publications. This document neither repeats nor seeks to replace the ICAO material: it provides, instead, a complementary source of guidance from design conceptualisation to implementation for the European terminal airspace designer.
2nd Edition
This is the second edition of the Terminal Airspace Design Guidelines and it replaces Edition 1 of 1998 entitled Terminal Airspace Design – Guidelines for an Operational Methodology. This document is also identified as Section 5 of the EUROCONTROL Airspace Planning Manual and published as Amendment 1. Although these Terminal Airspace Design Guidelines are comprehensive, there may be aspects of the document which require amendment or expansion and any comments or suggestions would be welcome. These should be addressed to: EUROCONTROL (AFN-BD), Rue de la Fusée 96, B-1130 Brussels, Belgium.
Likely users
This second edition was developed by the Terminal Airspace Task Force (TATF) of the Route Network Development Sub-Group (RNDSG) of the Airspace and Navigation Team (ANT). Building upon the foundations provided by the first edition, this document has been written for three audiences.
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Primarily, Terminal Airspace Designers who are tasked with the designing a Terminal Airspace. With this in mind, the document provides comprehensive material relating to the entire design process in a format that allows the designer to ‘start’ the project at the beginning of the document, and ‘conclude’ it at the document’s end.

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Chief of ATC Operations (or equivalent person) bearing responsibility for all airspace design projects produced by airspace design teams.

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3.  High-level ANSP Managers whose role is likely to include overseeing and coordinating large projects comprised of several sub-projects, one of which is the (re-)design of a Terminal Airspace. Because it cannot be assumed that these managers are familiar with Terminal Airspace operations, one of the aims of the document has been to provide an overview of the Terminal Airspace Design process.
　
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