ANTICIPATE was presented at the SESAR Innovation Days 2025 (SIDs 2025), held from 1 to 4 December 2025 (Lake Bled, Slovenia) through a scientific paper delivered by Mr. Alfons Borras from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

The paper addresses one of the most pressing challenges in Air Traffic Management (ATM): increasing airspace capacity while maintaining safety and controller workload at acceptable levels. In line with the ANTICIPATE vision, the study proposes an enhanced implementation of CAEHO (Cluster Aircraft Early Hand Over) procedures, leveraging early delegation of aircraft clusters as an alternative to traditional area-of-responsibility delegation.

At the core of the approach is an Early Hand Over mechanism applied to clusters of aircraft, designed to reduce the occupancy count of overloaded sectors. By analysing spatio-temporal interdependencies among adjacent sectors, the enhanced CAEHO procedures enable earlier and more granular handover decisions, supporting the provision of virtualised capacity and improving anticipatory traffic management.

A key contribution of the paper is the use of the occupancy count as an operational indicator to predict sector overloads and identify available spare capacity. The proposed solution is benchmarked through a dedicated use case, comparing aircraft cluster early delegation with conventional delegation based on fixed areas of responsibility and composable areas with convex dynamic boundaries, highlighting the benefits of CAEHO.

Targeting Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), Area Control Centres (ACC) and Local Traffic Management (LTM) stakeholders, the session gathered around 40 participants, confirming strong interest from both operational and research communities in scalable, procedure-oriented solutions for future ATM capacity management.