Low visibility has major effects on air traffic. A reliable and accurate forecast enables Air Traffic Control to anticipate these effects. The KDC and KNMI have improved and optimized the visibility forecast in the KDC-LVP project, part of the Dangerous Weather Programme. The acronym LVP stands for Low Visibility Procedure and is the name that airports use for the procedures used when low visibility is occurring or forecasted.

Concentrating air traffic in between communities can decrease annoyance. With this in mind, a trial started on November 22nd 2007 to concentrate traffic in between the communities of Hoofddorp and Nieuw-Vennep: the CROS Pilot 3b. The route makes use of the radius-to-fix navigation technique (also known as a RF-leg). In the CROS Pilot 3b'+ project the position of the turn is optimised to improve the noise annoyance reduction.

Concentrating air traffic in between communities can decrease annoyance. After a successful trial  to concentrate traffic in between the communities of Hoofddorp and Nieuw-Vennep (since November 22^th 2007), research has been conducted whether the technique could also show benefit on other routes. As a result of one of the Micro climate projects initiated by the LVNL, this project researches the potential for the technique for departing traffic from runway 18L, with the objective to reduce noise annoyance near Uithoorn.

In sustainable airport development an optimal balance between customer demands and environmental constraints is key. Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) operations play a vital role in improving environmental performance in the TMA. Fixed lateral routes with a continuous descent segment have been in place since a number of years at Schiphol in single runway operations during night time. Extending the use of CDA procedures to independent and simultaneous arrivals on closely spaced parallel runways is currently not possible. The biggest challenge is to guarantee sufficient separation between the aircraft in the procedure. The IPC project focuses on designing innovative solutions for IPC at Schiphol using experts from a wide and international network.

Aircraft manoeuvres on airports range from arrivals, departures to towings and pushbacks. All these movements take place in a limited space and can lead to bottlenecks. In order to ensure that the ground infrastructure at Schiphol will continue to operate efficiently, even when traffic numbers increase, potential bottlenecks should be resolved as early as possible. The Increased Groundhandling Capacity Schiphol project made an inventory of potential bottlenecks, designed several possible solutions and validated their effectiveness using fast-time simulation.