Title
Metropolis II: Investigating the Future Shape of Air Traffic Control in Highly Dense Urban Airspace
Author
Patrinopoulou, N. (University of Patras)
Daramouskas, I. (University of Patras)
Lappas, V. (University of Patras)
Morfin Veytia, A. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) 
Badea, C. (TU Delft Control & Simulation)
Ellerbroek, Joost (TU Delft Control & Simulation)
Hoekstra, J.M. (TU Delft Control & Simulation)
De Vries, V. (Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR)
Van Ham, J. (Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR)
Date
2022
Abstract
Metropolis II aims to provide insights in what is needed to enable high-density urban air operations. It does this by investigating the foundation for U-space U3/U4 services. The final goal is to provide a unified approach for strategic deconfliction, tactical deconfliction, and dynamic capacity management. Highly-dense operations in constrained urban airspace will likely require a degree of complexity that does not exist in modern-day air traffic management. The expected high traffic demand will require a shared use of the airspace instead of assigning exclusive use of blocks of the airspace to some flights. A unified approach for traffic management is needed because at high-densities, airspace design, flight planning, and separation management become increasingly interdependent. Metropolis II builds upon the results of the first Metropolis project. Three concepts with a varying degree of centralisation will be compared using simulations. (1) The centralised concept will take a global approach for separation management. (2) The decentralised concept aims to give the individual agents separation responsibility. (3) The hybrid concept tries to combine a centralised strategic planning agent with a robust tactical separation strategy.
Subject
BlueSky ATC Simulator
Degree of Centralisation
Flight planning
Separation management
U-Space
Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM)
Urban Airspace
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837201
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Embargo date
2023-07-01
ISBN
978-1-6654-0673-4
Source
2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022
Event
30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022, 2022-06-28 → 2022-07-01, Athens, Greece
Series
2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2022 N. Patrinopoulou, I. Daramouskas, V. Lappas, A. Morfin Veytia, C. Badea, Joost Ellerbroek, J.M. Hoekstra, V. De Vries, J. Van Ham, More Authors