Metropolis II: Investigating the Future Shape of Air Traffic Control in Highly Dense Urban AirspaceShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: 2022 30TH MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AND AUTOMATION (MED), IEEE , 2022, p. 649-655Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Metropolis II aims to provide insights in what is needed to enable high-density urban air operations. It does this by investigating the foundation for U-space U3/U4 services. The final goal is to provide a unified approach for strategic deconfliction, tactical deconfliction, and dynamic capacity management. Highly-dense operations in constrained urban airspace will likely require a degree of complexity that does not exist in modern-day air traffic management. The expected high traffic demand will require a shared use of the airspace instead of assigning exclusive use of blocks of the airspace to some flights. A unified approach for traffic management is needed because at high-densities, airspace design, flight planning, and separation management become increasingly interdependent. Metropolis II builds upon the results of the first Metropolis project. Three concepts with a varying degree of centralisation will be compared using simulations. (1) The centralised concept will take a global approach for separation management. (2) The decentralised concept aims to give the individual agents separation responsibility. (3) The hybrid concept tries to combine a centralised strategic planning agent with a robust tactical separation strategy.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE , 2022. p. 649-655
Series
Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, ISSN 2325-369X
Keywords [en]
Separation management; Flight planning; U-Space; Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM); BlueSky ATC Simulator; Urban Airspace; Degree of Centralisation
National Category
Environmental Analysis and Construction Information Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-189352DOI: 10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837201ISI: 000854013700106ISBN: 9781665406734 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-189352DiVA, id: diva2:1704910
Conference
30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Athens, GREECE, jun 28-jul 01, 2022
Note
Funding Agencies|SESAR Joint Undertaking under the European Union [892928]
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