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

N. Patrinopoulou; I. Daramouskas; V. Lappas; A. Morfin Veytia; C. A. Badea; J. Ellerbroek; J. Hoekstra; V. De Vries; J. Van Ham; null More Authors

doi:10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837201

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

N. Patrinopoulou, I. Daramouskas, V. Lappas, A. Morfin Veytia, C. A. Badea, J. Ellerbroek, J. Hoekstra, V. De Vries, J. Van Ham, More Authors

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	649-655
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-0673-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837201
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022 - Athens, Greece Duration: 28 Jun 2022 → 1 Jul 2022

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Name	2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022

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Conference	30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Athens
Period	28/06/22 → 1/07/22

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Keywords

BlueSky ATC Simulator
Degree of Centralisation
Flight planning
Separation management
U-Space
Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM)
Urban Airspace

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Patrinopoulou, N., Daramouskas, I., Lappas, V., Morfin Veytia, A., Badea, C. A., Ellerbroek, J., Hoekstra, J., De Vries, V., Van Ham, J., & More Authors (2022). Metropolis II: Investigating the Future Shape of Air Traffic Control in Highly Dense Urban Airspace. In 2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022 (pp. 649-655). (2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837201

Patrinopoulou, N. ; Daramouskas, I. ; Lappas, V. et al. / Metropolis II : Investigating the Future Shape of Air Traffic Control in Highly Dense Urban Airspace. 2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022. pp. 649-655 (2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022).

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Patrinopoulou N, Daramouskas I, Lappas V, Morfin Veytia A , Badea CA , Ellerbroek J et al. Metropolis II: Investigating the Future Shape of Air Traffic Control in Highly Dense Urban Airspace. In 2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2022. p. 649-655. (2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022). doi: 10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837201

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