ALG GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE ADVISORSSLU

Their core work

ALG Global Infrastructure Advisors is a Spanish transport and infrastructure consulting firm specializing in air traffic management (ATM) strategy, performance analysis, and master planning. They provide expert advisory services to the SESAR programme — Europe's flagship initiative for modernizing airspace management — contributing to cost-benefit analyses, deployment scenario modeling, and architecture integration. More recently, they have extended their advisory capabilities into space traffic management, applying their transport infrastructure expertise to the emerging challenge of governing orbital operations.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

ALG's H2020 involvement began in 2019 firmly rooted in SESAR air traffic management — architecture integration, airport runway operations, and cost-benefit analysis for ATM modernization. By 2021, they branched into space traffic management through the SPACEWAYS project, applying their transport governance and policy expertise to orbital operations, satellite constellations, and space security. This suggests a deliberate expansion from aviation-only advisory toward broader transport infrastructure domains where regulatory frameworks are still being shaped.

ALG is moving from established aviation advisory toward the emerging space traffic management domain, positioning themselves where infrastructure governance expertise meets new regulatory needs.

How they like to work

ALG participates exclusively as a third party — brought in by consortium members for their specialized advisory expertise rather than leading or directly partnering in projects. Despite this indirect role, they have touched 79 unique partners across 23 countries, indicating they are called upon by diverse consortia. This pattern suggests they are a trusted niche advisor whose value lies in expert input rather than project management or technical development.

Through their third-party engagements, ALG has connected with 79 organizations across 23 countries, giving them unusually broad exposure to the European ATM and space communities despite never leading a consortium themselves.

What sets them apart

ALG brings infrastructure advisory and economic analysis skills to highly technical aviation and space programmes — they are the business case and strategy layer in engineering-heavy consortia. Their rare combination of ATM master planning experience and emerging space traffic management involvement makes them one of few consultancies bridging these two transport domains. For consortium builders, they offer policy and economic expertise that complements technical partners without overlapping with them.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SPACEWAYS
  Marks ALG's strategic expansion from aviation into space traffic management — a high-profile topic as Europe develops governance for satellite mega-constellations and orbital debris.
• PJ19-W2 CI
  Core SESAR integration project covering architecture, performance management, and business case development — the strategic backbone of SESAR Wave 2 deployment planning.
• PJ02-W2 AART
  Focused on practical airport-level challenges like runway throughput and surface management, showing ALG's range from high-level strategy down to operational improvements.