Concept Design Report

Urban airspace for future high-traffic scenarios will require a structure that differs significantly from today’s to accommodate Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as well as a higher number of landing sites. Based on the findings of work package 1, four different airspace designs (Full Mix, Layers, Zones and Tubes) will be detailed into concepts in Work Package 2, to meet the demands of the scenarios as specified in Work Package 1. The Report addresses questions in the likes of General airspace structure, Separations/conflict avoidance, Trajectories and Approach/departure procedures. Many parameters of the concept need to be defined and optimized to allow a batch simulation. In all concepts, it is assumed that the on-board avionics have the airspace structure implemented, as well as other constraints such as terrain/obstacles and (uplinked) weather information. Advanced automation concepts result in a flight protection mode ensuring that the vehicles stay in the airspaces where they are allowed