Project description
Flying high and safe with urban air mobility vehicles
This SESAR very large-scale demonstration project will conduct a series of multinational demonstrations with drones and urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles, covering various use cases, including mixed operations. To ensure the safe introduction of UAM in the European region, the EU-funded Uspace4UAM project will bridge the gap between development and deployment of U-space capabilities and services. It will address issues of operational concepts, regulation and standards, while building confidence in a safe and orderly integration of UAM daily air traffic. The findings will show how regulation and standardisation can support innovators to build a sustainable business case while operating safely in a multimodal transport network that includes fully autonomous urban air taxi services.
Objective
Aiming to bridge the gap between development and deployment, this VLD project will tackle issues of operational concepts, regulation, and standards, while building confidence in a safe and orderly integration of UAM in every days air traffic. It will do this with a consortium of forward-looking cities and ANSPs, national regulators and EASA, a well experienced UTM provider, as well as eVTOL manufacturers, research centers, and technology providers. A series of well defined, iterative and multi-national demonstrations, both with drones and UAM vehicles will be conducted. They will cover different use cases, including mixed operations, to allow the project to derive critical enablers for a wide set of UAM service applications that can be applied all over Europe.
Uspace4UAM will build on the CORUS project results and on operational and business experience already gathered in operational drone service implementations in Europe. it will study safety cases and their impact on system requirements, and look at how regulation and standardisation can be set up to support innovators to build a sustainable business case while operating safely in a multi-modal transport network. This project is set to deliver results that are of real interest to “early movers”, enabling them to bring a real market impact in the next few years. In order to prove that this will be achieved, and that indeed the project has laid a bridge between development and deployment, the project is set to deliver a number of commercial contracts for the provision of fully automated drone services, and present solutions to identified gaps towards fully autonomous Urban Air Taxi services.
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
148 00 Praha
Czechia