Drawing a clear line of sight from the operational improvements of a particular investment to the broader costs and benefits impacting a range of different stakeholder groups has become a critical part of many major change.

The impact of modernisation is typically overwhelmingly positive. However, there is sometimes a misalignment between stakeholders that incur costs of making a change and those that benefit.

Some stakeholders may experience indirect costs, for example linked to changes in the impact of aircraft noise or the requirements to access certain volumes of airspace.

Trax consultants specialise in the analysis of the broader economic impacts of airspace and air traffic management changes both positive and negative.

Trax develops policy and regulatory enablers that support the modernisation of airspace and air traffic management sectors.

The development of State level cross industry airspace modernisation and PBN implementation plans, covering capability assessments across aircraft operators, airports and air navigation service providers, concepts of operation, business case development, transition and implementation planning.

Our Community Engagement services are designed to foster transparent, meaningful dialogue between stakeholders and local communities affected by airspace and flight path changes. We ensure that community concerns are heard and addressed through structured consultation processes, promoting mutual understanding and support for sustainable aviation solutions.

Additionally, we are committed to meeting the highest Community Engagement standards as set by our customers, ensuring compliance and delivering outcomes that align with both regulatory requirements and community expectations.

At Trax, we recognize that effective stakeholder engagement is crucial to the success of any project.

Modernization impacts a diverse range of stakeholders, including your staff, customers, competitors, partners, regulators, executive board, and local communities, each in unique ways. We understand that proactive engagement is key to addressing concerns and driving success. Our approach involves identifying, tracking, and mapping stakeholders to ensure they are consistently informed and involved as your project progresses.

Effective consultation analysis and reporting are the means to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose and accounting for stakeholders’ input in a balanced way.

Regardless of subject, complexity and volume, our professionals will gather, process, summarise and draw informative conclusions from your data.

Trax consultants have extensive experience in processing and compiling reports on various data. Descriptive, inferential statistics and other analyses will be summarised and explained in clear professional reports.

Any change can have an environmental impact. Ensuring planned modernisation is done sustainably and ethically is critical to success.

Our associates will independently analyse current performance in order to create your environmental baseline against which an impact of change can be measured.

Assessments of local air quality, CO₂ emissions, noise footprints, tranquillity and biodiversity are reported to ensure all stakeholders are provided with the clarity required when it comes to impact of any change.

Our team brings an advanced skillset and many years of practical experience in the maintenance, improvement and modernisation of terminal airspace, aircraft arrival and departure procedures.

We review, maintain and safeguard existing IFPs and design new procedures to a Performance Based Navigation (PBN) specification. PBN delivers safety, capacity, flight efficiency and environmental benefits. Using innovative techniques we find methods of mitigating the sometimes negative effects of noise concentration.

We perform ground and/or flight validation of new or revised instrument flight procedures to ensure the procedure is operationally acceptable for safety, flyability and design accuracy.

Instrument Flight Procedure Design and Validation
Our team brings an advanced skillset and many years of practical experience in the maintenance, improvement and modernisation of terminal airspace, aircraft arrival and departure procedures.
We review, maintain and safeguard existing IFPs and design new procedures to a Performance Based Navigation (PBN) specification. PBN delivers safety, capacity, flight efficiency and environmental benefits. Using innovative techniques we find methods of mitigating the sometimes negative effects of noise concentration.
We perform ground and/or flight validation of new or revised instrument flight procedures to ensure the procedure is operationally acceptable for safety, flyability and design accuracy.
For more information regarding Instrument Procedure Design and IFP Safeguarding please contact us at IFP Design https://ifpdesign.ie

National and International rules mandate that aerodromes are proactively safeguarded against all obstacle surfaces.

We safeguard Obstacle Limitation Surfaces and Instrument Flight Procedures (IFPs) against proposed developments, constructions or planned temporary obstacles.

For airports with large volumes of planning and crane applications, we create bespoke coloured square maps as well as software that can significantly reduce the number of assessments that need to be passed to our IFP designers for further assessment.

Aerodrome and Instrument Flight Procedure Safeguarding National and International rules mandate that aerodromes are proactively safeguarded against all obstacle surfaces. We safeguard Obstacle Limitation Surfaces and Instrument Flight Procedures (IFPs) against proposed developments, constructions or planned temporary obstacles. For airports with large volumes of planning and crane applications, we create bespoke coloured square maps as well as software that can significantly reduce the number of assessments that need to be passed to our IFP designers for further assessment. For more information regarding Instrument Procedure Design and IFP Safeguarding please contact us at IFP Design https://ifpdesign.ie

Our Air Traffic Management (ATM) Planning services provide comprehensive solutions for optimizing airspace structure, traffic flow, and operational efficiency. We work closely with stakeholders to develop tailored, future-focused plans that meet regulatory requirements, enhance safety, and support the sustainable growth of air traffic systems.

Our Terminal Airspace Design services prioritize safety, effeciency and scalability while fostering a sense of community by design. By integrating advanced modeling techniques and industry best practices, we create airspace structures that optimize capacity, reduce delays, and enhance operational performance, all while ensuring collaborative engagement with stakeholders and communities.

Maximising the efficiency of airfields, terminals, runways and the air transport network is a top priority for the aviation sector to minimise costs and enable sustainable growth.

Trax are working at the forefront of internationally recognised initiatives to connect airports with the air transport network, focusing on the deployment of new systems, tools and operating procedures to optimise the flow of traffic on the ground and in the air via Airport Collaborative Decision Making (ACDM), surveillance systems for enhanced situational awareness and Departure Planning Information (DPI) messaging solutions.

Our offerings include:
• Airfield, Terminal and Runway Performance Reviews
• Airport Integration and Throughput Business Case Development
• Concept of Operation Development
• System Requirements Gathering and Documenting
• Process Redesign
• Technical Support to System Implementation
• Training and Change Management

Our team of experts will determine existing and potential Unmanned Traffic Management requirements, advise, research, create and implement a suitable UTM solution.

Extensive UAS operations would normally require Unmanned Traffic Management to ensure efficiency, safety and regulatory compliance and we are able to provide all the necessary support. Various UTM solutions could be beneficial in fairly small and even segregated blocks of airspace, whereas UTM would often be compulsory if there is a slight chance of interacting with uninvolved members of the public or conventional traffic.

We can provide UTM integration support for all kinds of UAS operations: starting from a simple managing aircraft system for a private business (such as farming or oil rig inspections), to scoping trials, understanding/creating the regulatory framework and providing solutions for governments and national aviation regulators on nationwide scale.

We propose, test, validate and scale a suitable UAS solution for your organisation.

Whether you are a private business, an airport or a government agency that sees potential benefits in UAS operations, our experts can provide full support to your business, understanding regulations, technical requirements, limitations and business opportunities. We can help organise trials for a variety of solutions, starting from a simple VLOS surveying service or more complex BVLOS operations.

We can both organise trials, help you setup solutions for independent operations or provide a service on short and medium term projects. Examples could vary from local inspections in manual flight, autonomous surveying (including thermal, LIDAR and others), BVLOS deliveries and other tailored bespoke solutions that could benefit from a UAS technology.