Identification, Categorisation and Gaps of Safety Indicators for U-Space

Javier Alberto Pérez-Castán, Fernando Gómez Comendador, Ana Belén Cardenas-Soria, Dominik Janisch and Rosa M. Arnaldo Valdés
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Javier Alberto Pérez-Castán: Aerospace Systems, Air Transport and Airports, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Fernando Gómez Comendador: Aerospace Systems, Air Transport and Airports, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Ana Belén Cardenas-Soria: Aerospace Systems, Air Transport and Airports, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Dominik Janisch: Centro de Referencia de Investigación Desarrollo e Innovación, ATM A.I.E., Avenida de Aragón 402, 28022 Madrid, Spain
Rosa M. Arnaldo Valdés: Aerospace Systems, Air Transport and Airports, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: Many civilian applications of commercial unmanned aircraft are being planned to operate in the years ahead. Several countries have developed their own framework to design the operation of unmanned aircraft and the different services that demand safe operation. This paper focuses on the European framework denoted as U-space which concludes with the joint integration of manned and unmanned aircraft in the airspace. U-space is a set of novel services and specific procedures designed to provide safe and efficient access into the airspace to the airspace users. U-space constitutes a management system to organise unmanned operations and provides relevant information to drone operators as well as manned aircraft, air navigation service providers and authorities. The understanding of associated hazards and risks to unmanned aircraft is a critical issue for their operation in complex and non-segregated airspaces. The safety assessment developed herein is crucial to identify safety indicators for U-space. In addition, the identification of safety indicators was used to identify gaps in U-spaces services that are not correctly covered by the U-space framework. Particularly, several safety indicators are identified that currently U-space services do not consider and can imply an increase in the operational risk of unmanned operations.

Keywords: air transport; U-space; UAS; safety indicators; hazard identification; risk assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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