In order to develop sustainable, environmentally friendly and safe air traffic, a technology-neutral and forward-looking legal system is required. But is our legal system ready to achieve these goals or do we need new regulation?
To answer these questions EvAir will evaluate the applicable law in its complex multi-level system (national, European and international). With this approach, it will establish to which extent the applicable law already serves the sustainable development of the air transport system.
To the extent that the law has so far been an obstacle to sustainability, EvAir aims to overcome these limits by developing long-term sustainable air traffic law. From a legal the point of view, innovative technologies may sometimes have a disruptive character. Their chances of assertion require a suitable, acceptance-creating, and efficient regulatory framework and thus proactive design.
Is the currently applicable national and international air traffic law at all able to make the transition into a modern, sustainable and future-oriented traffic system in a legally secure manner while sufficiently weighing up the interests of all stakeholders?
EvAir's approach is to add a legal dimension to the technological, economic and ecological factors in the SE²A cluster, whereby the findings of the other research projects in Se²A are continuously incorporated. To this end, EvAir will enter into direct exchange with the other research units funded in the cluster.
In phase 1, the current legal situation is recorded and analysed under the factors of effectiveness, efficiency, consistency, and acceptance while taking the SE²A goal of developing an environmentally friendly and energy-efficient development of the ATS into account. In doing so, EvAir will find the limits of the existing law for sustainable and energy-efficient aviation.
In phase 2, EvAir intends to advance the law. The limits recognized in phase 1 are overcome by constructive proposals for the amendment of the law.
Principal Investigator
Bienroder Weg 87, Room 020
+49 (0) 531 391-2461
anne.paschke[at]tu-braunschweig.de
Doctoral Researcher
Bienroder Weg 87, Room 004
+49 (0) 531 391-2498
a.kukuk[at]tu-braunschweig.de
Cluster of Excellence SE²A –
Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Aviation
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Hermann-Blenk-Str. 42
38108 Braunschweig
se2a(at)tu-braunschweig.de
+49 531 391 66661