The global objective of AURA is to lay the foundations for the integration of the new entrants in current and future air traffic environment, developing the required concept of operations and validating U-space services information exchanges with ATM systems.
It will contribute to enable the development of U-space in the Very Low Level (VLL) markets, allowing the introduction of new actors in a safe, harmonized, sustainable and efficient way and compatible with current ATM environment.
In order to achieve this objective, all relevant stakeholders (drone operators, U-space service providers, data services providers, ATM providers and authorities) will be included during the project development and throughout its lifetime. AURA project will define, develop and validate the exchange of U-space information with ATM with the aim to standardize the way U-space and ATM communicate. It will also define a novel Collaborative ATM-U-space Concept of Operations for high volumes of manned and unmanned traffic operating safely and concurrently in the same airspace into a fully collaborative environment with ATM that go beyond the existing concepts developed for U-space.
AURA will also have an impact on the expected economic potential of the drone market. The further development of U-space services concept of operations will also contribute to the rapid deployment of U-space roadmap in Europe.
The new drone applications will have a direct impact in society that will obtain direct benefit from the new services provided by UAVs like the use of drones for search and rescue missions or transport of medicines or blood preservation. This direct impact will grow in the future with the use of drones for applications as delivery or urban air mobility.
All this will be possible due to the project will facilitate seamless operations of drones and maned aviation in controlled airspace, increasing interoperability and airspace capacity in a safe manner.
