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EUropean Key solutions for vertiports and UAM

Project description

Improving vertipoint operations for urban air mobility

Urban air mobility (UAM) is poised to transform transportation, but several challenges remain. Current airspace management systems were not designed for the complexity of UAM operations, and a lack of standardised procedures for vertiport interactions adds to the difficulty. Additionally, U-space regulatory frameworks are still evolving. There is a need for solutions that can ensure safe, efficient, and scalable integration of vertiports into European airspace. With this in mind, the EU-funded EUREKA project will develop four key SESAR solutions. The aim is to optimise arrival, departure, and turnaround processes, alongside traffic management, disruption response, and capacity management. The outcomes will form a deployable blueprint for UAM integration, supporting both manned and unmanned VTOL aircraft.

Objective

The EUREKA project aims at enabling the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) accommodation (SESAR3 R&I need: Enabling UAM) in all types of airspace (R&I need: support the development of the U-space regulatory framework and required standards) with a focus on the vertiports operations.
Main airports players and U-space/UAM developers team up under the leadership of EUROCONTROL to move the lines and develop the enabling vertiport solutions. The project outcomes will trigger a major update of the U-space/UAM operational concept with new procedures and tools dedicated to vertiport integration into the airspace.
The EUREKA project will develop the complete arrival, departure and turnaround process for vertiports. The proposed four (4) SESAR Solutions at TRL7. These solutions are essential elements of a process required for integration of vertiports operations into the airspace:
• Solution 1: Arrival/ departure to/ from vertiport including route and trajectory
• Solution 2: Vertiport collaborative traffic management
• Solution 3: Vertiport disruption and emergency management
• Solution 4: Vertiport Network Flow, Capacity & Operational Management
The EUREKA project will enable widely accepted solutions that relate to operational procedures and tools usable as a deployable blueprint in all EASA Members States (and possibly beyond) by the end of the project.
The proposed solutions will develop procedures and systems consistent with the regulation when possible and that go even beyond as these solutions will be for manned and unmanned VTOL aircraft, and not only for UAV.
The ultimate objective is to deliver EUREKA outcomes in a way Europe can (re)use its operational procedures, performance and safety requirements, validation results, recommendations for regulation/standardisation and any information that will accelerate and harmonize the development of UAM, VTOL operations and vertiport development across Europe.

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HORIZON-JU-IA - HORIZON JU Innovation Actions

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EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION
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Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
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€ 2 085 583,75

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