What is the problem/issue being addressed?
The problem/issue being addressed (and therefore SAFIR-Med project’s vision) is to achieve safe, sustainable, socially beneficial and socially accepted urban air mobility.
Why is it important for society?
Through advances in medical solutions (medicine, techniques) and demographics cost in healthcare rises beyond inflation levels. As Healthcare already takes up 10% of GDP (EU average level) and other large budgets are rising as well (e.g. retirement, education, defense) efficiences will need to be found within healthcare. This leads to a consolidation and specialisation of medical technical activities. With an increase in average distance between supply and demand of technical medical care, demand is on the rise for reliable, ad-hoc and rapid transport. This is the underlying (societal) reason to address the abovementionned issue. SAFIR-Med aims to enable Smart Cities to include UAM in their Transport Roadmaps, support standardisation and thereby safety. By doing this, SAFIR-Med will have made an important contribution to the EU healthcare system, by ensuring that future generations will continue to democratically have access to the best cure and care.
What are the overall objectives that were achieved by the project?
(1) Help urban authorities realize their role and make their first steps in the UAS world
(2) Improve infrastructure contributing to safer transport with a positive social impact
(3) Ensure sustainable infrastructure that is beneficial for society and environmentally friendly
(4) Demonstrate novel public UAM services and service models
(5) Regulation, standards, business prospects and outputs dissemination: Ensure sustainability and mid-term wide adoption of the proposed solution
