Performance management within aviation is mainly in relation to ATM performance and airport capacity.

In EU ATM performance is governed by the Single European Sky regulations, setting the framework to establish 5 year performance plans, covering the 4 key performance areas: Safety, capacity, cost efficiency and flight efficiency (environmental impact), with relevant incentives for the service providers. The process includes target setting at EU level, draft performance plans at Functional Airspace Block or national level, assessment of these performance plans by the Performance Review Board and finally approval by the Single Sky Committee. During the reference period reporting is done periodicly on the performance plans.

Airport capacity includes all elements of an airports infrastructure and operations related to the passengers’ movement through and aircrafts operations at the airport. This includes i.e.: check in facilities, baggage handling, security facilities, lounge and passenger movement areas, apron and runway capacity, etc.

Keld Ludvigsen has extensive knowledge and experience in these areas from:

• Appointed to the Eurocontrol Performance Review Commission and the EU Performance Review Board from 2009 – 2013, and was the chairman of the Performance Review Commission from 2011 – 2012. During these appointments he contributed substantially to the development of the European performance scheme for ATM;
• Responsible for development of the Danish performance plan for RP1 and RP2;
• As chairman of the ICAO Air Navigation Service Economic Panel he was deeply involved in developing the economic part of the ICAO guidance material on ATM performance and was one of the keynote speakers at the ICAO world-wide Symposium on Performance of the Air Navigation System (SPANS) in 2007;
• Developed the capacity regulation scheme, used since 2008, for oversight of capacity and performance in Copenhagen Airport.