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Metropolis II: Benefits of Centralised Separation Management in High-Density Urban Airspace

Paper ID

SIDs-2022-088

Conference

SESAR Innovation Days

Year

2022

Theme

U-space II

Project Name

SESAR 2020 ER4 project Metropolis 2

Keywords:

Conflict Detection & Resolution (CD&R), Self-Separation, U-space, UAS, Unmanned Traffic Management, UTM

Authors

Andres Morfin Veytia, Calin Badea, Joost Ellerbroek, Jacco Hoekstra, Niki Patrinopoulou, Ioannis Daramouskas, Vaios Lappas, Vassilis Kostopoulos, Vincent de Vries, Jacomijn van Ham, Emmanuel Sunil, Pablo Menendez Ponte Alonso, Javier Rodrigo Villazon Terrazas, Denis Bereziat, Andrija Vidosavljevic and Leonid Sedov

DOI

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Project Number

892928

Abstract

The Metropolis II project aimed to study the impact of centralised separation management for urban aerial mobility. Three concepts were developed in this study: a fully centralised, strategically separated concept, a hybrid concept featuring centralised strategic separation and distributed tactical separation, and a fully distributed tactical concept. A comparative simulation study was performed, using traffic scenarios based on predicted demand in an urban airspace in the city of Vienna. Simulations were performed with varying traffic densities and situations. Results show that the purely strategic and purely tactical strategies perform comparably in terms of safety, and that further improvements can be achieved with a combination of those strategies.