ICE: Ideal Cabin Environment Project

ICE is a European 6th Framework project addressing the widespread concerns about the impact of aircraft cabin environment on the health and well-being of passengers in commercial planes. Changing passenger demographics, the advent of ultra-long-haul services, and specific airplane health issues such as Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and SARS, have all combined to increase concerns. The ICE consortium, consisting of 15 organisations in eight European countries will, over a three-year project lifetime, determine the health-based optimum levels and synergistic effects of aeroplane cabin environmental parameters, including cabin pressure, on the full spectrum of the travelling public.