# Presentation: 420635

## Cross Polar Trans East Air Traffic Management Work Group 

**ICAO Trans-East Regional Airspace Organization and ATM supporting Steering Group Meeting (TRASAS/1)**
**May 2-3, 2007 Paris**

**Presented by:  ****	****Carey Fagan, Director of ATO Operations Planning International **
**Date:   ****	****April 26, 2007**

## Trans-Regional Airspace and Supporting ATM Systems Steering Group First Meeting (TRASAS/1)

- TRASAS involves States and Organizations from the following ICAO regions:
- Asia
- Europe
- North Atlantic
- Pacific
- Invitees include: Canada, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,  Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Japan, Mongolia, Norway, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United States, IACA, IATA, IBAC, IFALPA and Chairman of APANPIRG, EANPG, and NAT SPG

## TRASAS

- TRASAS intends to be high level steering group for major stakeholders to attend and establish policy guidelines on particular issues and delegate action to appropriate technical body/bodies
- Meeting Objectives to Establish**:**
- Working Methods
- Structure
- Work Program
- To include time frames and deliverables

**Notes:**
Current Attendees:
U.S. 
Luis Ramirez
Carey Fagan
Canada:
Randy Speiran
Russia: 
Dmitry Savitsky, Deputy Director FANA
Vasily Topchiev, Head of International Organizations and Protocol Support Division, Department of International Relations, FANA
Natalia Kirillova, FANA
Yury Tokarev, FANA
Sergey Pogrebnov, ATMC
Alexey Buevich, Manager, Operational User Support, State ATM Corporation 

## TRASAS  Terms of Reference - highlights

**TRASAS shall work under auspices of ICAO**
**EUR/NAT office shall provide full secretariat support to the group**
**TRASAS shall not substitute itself for other planning bodies which are active under auspices of ICAO (EANPG, NATSPG, APANPIRG, etc.) or bodies operating bilaterally/multilaterally**
**May provide guidance as well as coordinating function for these groups on various technical and operational aspects and combine results into one coherent overall plan**
- May lead to changes/amendment to ICAO Regional Air Navigation Plan
**May Establish Contributory Working Bodies (CWB) that shall work on its behalf on specific expert issues**

## TRASAS Agenda - Key Discussion Areas

- TRASAS Terms of Reference
- Review work currently underway to enhance ATS Route network using current and future technologies and need to plan for transition to performance based navigation system
- Determine short, medium and long term goals of TRASAS including establishing work program, methods, timeframe and deliverables

## Cross Polar Trans-East Traffic Management Working Group (CPWG)

- Provides a forum to improve air traffic services (ATS) for aircraft transiting polar and Russian Trans East Airspace.
- Consists of air navigation service provider representatives from :
- Russia, Canada, Iceland, the United States
- International organizations representing airspace operator groups (e.g., the International Air Transport Association (IATA) International Business Aviation Council (IBAC)) who operate in that airspace
- Will work cooperatively to identify and resolve issues that impact the efficiency of ATS primarily for flights operating in the airspace between North America and Asia
- Current focus primarily on Polar and Trans-East airspace issues, in order to promote seamless, efficient and safe ATS
**representatives from other organizations and ANS providers, including, but not limited to China, Mongolia and Japan, may also be invited to participate in Cross Polar WG activities, as appropriate.**** **