CAAS and SUTD partners to establish Aviation Studies Institute:
18 April, 2019: The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to begin an Aviation Studies Institute (ASI) to advance air traffic management (ATM) research and development (R&D) in Singapore.
The agreement was signed by Kevin Shum, Director-General, CAAS and Chong Tow Chong, President, SUTD on 9th April 2019.
The ASI will undertake research projects that will benefit the wider aviation community by enabling stakeholders to adopt solutions that will boost operational efficiency, increase capacity and global interoperability.
The ATM tools and policy recommendations developed by the ASI will have a lot of impact in Singapore and the ASEAN region and facilitate dialogue on region-wide collaborative approaches. For a start, the ASI will carry out research in the following four areas - Network Capacity, Airfield Management and Economics, Airport Connectivity and Information Sharing and Collaborative Decision Making.
In the next five years, CAAS will offer $11.6 million to fund the aviation and ATM policy research undertaken by the ASI, as well as aviation experts for research projects, while SUTD will provide in-kind contributions of S$5 million, including research manpower and facilities.
"The ASI is a key element of CAAS' larger effort to develop Singapore as a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for ATM and facilitate the development of safer and more efficient air travel. It will expand the scope of ATM R&D in Singapore to generate insights for improving and transforming our operating models," said Director-General of CAAS, Kevin Shum.
"The ASI represents a major step forward in one of the four major thrusts of SUTD's strategic growth plan. We see Aviation, Healthcare and Cities as three critical domain challenges facing Singapore with the technology of Artificial Intelligence undergirding future advances in all three. All four thrusts build on SUTD's bold advocacy for design innovation. The partnership with CAAS reinforces this vision as the ASI will not only tackle practical problems in the Aviation policy domain but also approach them from a system design perspective and leverage the computational tools of data analytics, optimisation and reinforcement learning," said SUTD President, Chong Tow Chong.
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