The project carried out the development and initial validation of the ConOps for the seamless integration of ATM and Air Transport into an overall intermodal network enabling door-to-door connectivity. Specific studies for the design of the ConOps for ATM integration in intermodal transport network have been carried out, properly addressing the transportation and passengers service scenarios envisaged for the next decades (2025, 2035, 2050). Dedicated and detailed studies have been carried out about the two main domains of the overall ConOps, i.e. the transportation platforms integration domain and the innovative seamless mobility as a service domain. X-TEAM D2D ConOps has been validated through quantitative simulations as well as qualitative evaluation, with respect to specified set of KPAs and KPIs. The integration of ATM and air transport into overall intermodal transport system properly considered both currently available transportation alternatives on the surface and water and the emerging and perspective new mobility forms over the longer-term time horizon. As a relevant result, autonomisation and electrification of transport modes has been considered on the surface and special and detailed consideration has been devoted to the emerging vertical mobility in urban areas, i.e. to the Urban Air Mobility presence over the next decades. In the studies all the relevant results coming from applicable projects aimed to support the intermodal transport have been considered.
In the ConOps, specific focus has been devoted to the description of the role that ATM and aviation and UAM and U-space can play in the integrated transport system. The final concept of Total Traffic Management, then, integrated such roles in the final target Mobility as a Service environment. Detailed consideration of the air mobility role in the integrated system is reflected in all the technical deliverables, according to their specific focus.
The project implemented a simulation-based approach in the validation of the proposed ConOps, developing dedicated simulation platform and using it to simulate all the use cases and scenarios that have been designed in the project.
The project implemented a dedicated communication, exploitation and dissemination strategy in terms of a threefold approach, clearly identifying the specific activities related to each one of these domains, targeting them to the different and interested stakeholders. Communication addressed the website and the social media presence, by means of the Twitter channel and the dedicated LinkedIn project page. In terms of dissemination, the project provided several publications in journals and conference proceedings as well as presentations in conferences. About exploitation, the project has been highly committed to disseminate the information relevant to project execution and results, and great attention has been given to make industry aware about the X-TEAM D2D results.
