An assessment of frameworks for heterogeneous aircraft operations in low-altitude airspace

Busyairah Syd Ali, Sam Saji and Moon Ting Su

International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2022, vol. 37, issue C

Abstract: In the past decade, the utilization of drones has been increasing for various civilian and military applications. The drones’ operations occupy Class G airspace, which is uncontrolled, though it is regulated. The growing number of applications for drones indicates future traffic in Class G airspace. Therefore, many researchers, in both academia and industry, have proposed conceptual frameworks for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM). Implementation of a traffic management system in the Class G airspace is deemed crucial to ensure safe and efficient management of the aircraft – both manned and unmanned – flying in the airspace. This research aimed to investigate if the existing frameworks for UTM comply with the operational and system requirements of an air traffic management system and more precisely for unmanned aircraft operations in a mixed-mode operational environment. This research answers the following research questions: (i) What are the existing UTM frameworks? (ii) What are the operational requirements for a UTM system? (iii) What are the system requirements for a UTM system? (iv) What is the compliance level of all existing UTM frameworks?

Keywords: Unmanned aircraft systems traffic management (UTM); Low-altitude air vehicles (LAV); Class G airspace; Drone; Air-taxi; Operational requirement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187454822200018X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ijocip:v:37:y:2022:i:c:s187454822200018x

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2022.100528

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection is currently edited by Leon Strous

More articles in International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().