• DATS Workshop on Digital Air Traffic Services: Workload and Safety Assessment

    May 12-13, 2026
    Linköping University
    Location: Campus Norrköping, Sweden (this is not in Linköping)

Norrköping industry landscape
LiU Saab Space2ground


Dear colleague,

we are proud to invite you to the 7th DATS workshop on May 12-13 2026. The objective and focus of the workshop is to present, share and discuss the rapid developments within digital ATS. This includes recent research on:

Agenda

We are happy to announce our keynote speaker for 2026:
Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Professor Emeritus, Karolinska Institutet: “Fatigue in Aviation (and Other Areas)—Meaning, Regulation, Performance"



Preliminary agenda:

Day 1 (May 12, in lecture hall K3)

13:00 - Billy Josefsson, Tatiana Polishchuk, Christiane Schmidt : welcome notes, round table, introduction
13:30 - KEYNOTE Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Professor Emeritus, Karolinska Institutet: Fatigue in Aviation (and Other Areas)—Meaning, Regulation, Performance
14:15 - Coffee break (sponsored by space2ground)
14:45 - Laurie Marsman, NLR: Fatigue-Project Results
15:15 - Maximilian Peukert, LFV: Fatigue in Air Traffic Control: Insights from Field Studies
15:45 - Technical break
16:15 - Tobias Finck, DLR: A New Method for Calculating the Workload for Future ATM Concepts
16:45 - Niclas Gustavsson, SAAB group, closing notes: TBA
17:00 - Discussion, closing notes
19:00 - Networking event at TBA (sponsored by LFV)

Day 2 (May 13, in lecture hall K1)

8:45 - Gathering
9:00 - Gilles Winckler, European Transport Workers Federation: Centralised European Flight Planning: Cutting ATCO Workload and CO2 Emissions
9:30 - Jonas Lundberg, LiU:Systems Autonomy through Human - AI teaming
10:00 - Coffee break (sponsored by space2ground)
10:30 - Lothar Meyer and Helene Alpfjord Wylde, LFV: OWL2, Regression Analysis of Workload Indicators Using Eye-Tracking Metrics, Discovering Human Workload Response
11:00 - Tatiana Polishchuk, LIU and Joris Field, NLR: IFAV3 Project Results
11:30 - Petra ten Hove, NLR: SESAR VISORS Project, Human Performance Dashboard for Distributed/Federated Simulation
12:00 - Take-home messages, closing words
12:30 - Lunch at TBA (Sponsored by SAAB)



You can register via email to the members of the organizing committee.

This year’s workshop will be co-located with the Industrial PhD Student Exhibition, which will take place on May 12, from 09:00 to 12:00. The event will feature a student poster session showcasing industrial projects, as well as two keynote presentations by invited speakers from UC Berkeley and EUROCONTROL.

For location of workshop venue and restaurants, see Travel Information.

Travel Information


The workshop will take place at the beautiful Campus Norrköping of Linköping University in Sweden. Please use this link to get information on possible travel options to Norrköping.

Things to explore: Visit Norrköping

Red: workshop venue; yellow: hotels; purple: restaurants for the networking event and lunch.


Indoor map for meeting rooms: TBD