Operational Requirements for Urban Air Traffic Management
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Traffic and Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 583
Special Issue Editors
Interests: airspace integration; air traffic management; human factors; human-in-the-loop simulations; future air traffic management; wildlife strike prevention
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research and industry have achieved enormous progress in the investigation and towards the implementation of urban air mobility in a short time. Test flights of several manufacturers of (electric) vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capable aircraft (VCA) have been performed. While proposing regulatory frameworks on vehicle certifications, multiple civil aviation authorities have developed concepts of operations (CONOPS) to obtain airborne VCA and integrate them into the existing operable airspaces and vertiports.
This Special Issue focuses on the operational aspects of urban air mobility (UAM) and the proofs of concepts still required before VCA can be integrated safely and efficiently into the current airspace operations. We invite papers which aim at closing the gap between theoretical frameworks and the actual feasibility of the proposed airspace integration concepts. Thereby, we would like to especially encourage the presentation of applied studies such as human-in-the-loop simulations or field tests.
How can vertiport operations be integrated in urban airspaces and in the vicinity of airports? How will separate flight corridors initially be realized? How will conflict avoidance between (remotely) piloted and automated VCAs take place? How to prevent collisions with non-cooperative airspace users such as birds or drones? What coordination with air traffic control (ATC) is required when a VCA enters the control zone of an airport? How will navigation be performed in places with limited satellite reception? How will target levels of safety be operationally maintained?
The goal of this Special Issue is to provide answers to these questions. We are looking forward to your contributions!
Dr. Isabel C. Metz
Dr. Bianca I. Schuchardt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air traffic management
- airspace integration
- CONOPS
- operations
- urban air traffic management
- vertiports
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