Metropolis II

Investigating the Future Shape of Air Traffic Control in Highly Dense Urban Airspace

Conference paper (2022)

Authors

N. Patrinopoulou University of Patras
I. Daramouskas University of Patras
V. Lappas University of Patras
V. De Vries Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR
J. Van Ham Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR
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Copyright: © 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
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837201
U-Space BlueSky ATC Simulator Urban Airspace Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) Degree of Centralisation Flight planning Separation management
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Published Date

2022

Language

English

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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.