Objective IATA forecasts an annual air traffic growth of at least 5% for the coming years. As a consequence the capacity overload of current airports has considerably grown. The huge shore lines and number of islands in Europe which were increased by the new EC member states offer a great potential for an international air traffic system uisng seaplanes and amphibians. With these vehicles new traffic routes can be developed with the advantage of using natural landing strips. By using amphibians direct connections from shorelines to airports can be realised. The mobility of a large population will be improved. Operators and entrepreneurs interested in starting new seaplane businesses report about missing modern airplanes, international standards and rules and missing expertise of various stakeholders. Based on this preliminary analysis the proposal aims to investigate the today´s seaplane situation and to evaluate the weaknesses and strenghts and to elaborate a set of concepts and requirements for a future seaplane air transportation system for "Improving passenger choice in air transportation" including technical requirements for " new vehicles". The elaboration of new concepts shall be based on existing experiences and its evaluation and on research work focussing on future oriented traffic system concepts including the integration into a sea/air/land traffic chain. In order to collect all available experiences and ideas as a basis for effective future traffic concepts workshops shall be organized by bringing together all relevant stakeholders. One workshop shall be arranged in the Mediterreanean (Greece, Italy or Spain) one in Poland and one in GB or France. The workshops will support the dissemination of the SA results and of FP7 and ACARE policies, too. Beside the reqirements for the new transport system a road map for needed regulatory issues will be compiled supported by EASA. The partners coming from seaplane operation, amphibian industy and from aeronautical research guarantee a successful SA. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship Programme(s) FP7-TRANSPORT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) Topic(s) AAT.2008.7.0.3. - Improving passenger choice in air transportation with the incorporation of additional and new vehicles Call for proposal FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA-SA - Support actions Coordinator Dornier Aviation GmbH EU contribution € 63 397,00 Address Hallendorfer Str. 11 88690 Uhldingen-Mühlhofen Germany See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Wolfgang Wagner (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Dr. sträter Bernd Germany EU contribution € 39 804,00 Address Tobelweg 30 88090 Immenstaad See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Bernd Sträter (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN Germany EU contribution € 75 328,00 Address Arcisstrasse 21 80333 Muenchen See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Benedikt Mohr (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data POLITECHNIKA RZESZOWSKA IM IGNACEGO LUKASIEWICZA PRZ Poland EU contribution € 69 978,00 Address AL POWSTANCOW WARSZAWY 12 35-959 RZESZOW See on map Region Makroregion wschodni Podkarpackie Rzeszowski Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Andrzej Majka (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW United Kingdom EU contribution € 79 929,00 Address UNIVERSITY AVENUE G12 8QQ Glasgow See on map Region Scotland West Central Scotland Glasgow City Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Roderick Galbraith (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Harbour Air (Malta) Limited Malta EU contribution € 69 336,00 Address Valletta Waterfront, Pinto Wharf FRN 1913 Floriana See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alfred Manduca (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data