Urban-Air Port, Skyroads partner on Urban Air Traffic Management for Advanced Air Mobility

Urban-Air Port (UAP), has announced this week their lat­est part­ner, Sky­roads, a Ger­man-based tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny, who are devel­op­ing auto­mat­ed air­space man­age­ment and guid­ance sys­tems.

With UAP build­ing the essen­tial ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture for eVTOLs, the need for safe­ly man­aged en-route nav­i­ga­tion and ter­mi­nal pro­ce­dures, con­form­ing to present and upcom­ing reg­u­la­to­ry rules, are now a pri­or­i­ty.

The press release states, “This new part­ner­ship between UAP and Sky­roads serves to address this, through a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort on devel­op­ing a ConOps (Con­cept of Oper­a­tions) – a blue­print for how ver­ti­ports and drones will inter­act through a UATM sys­tem – ‘build­ing roads in the sky’ — enabling safe pas­sen­ger flights and trans­port of car­go via high­ly auto­mat­ed and even­tu­al­ly autonomous deliv­ery drones.”

It con­tin­ues, “UAP and Sky­roads will utilise the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy to devel­op ‘dig­i­tal twins’ – a dynam­ic vir­tu­al copy of the inter­ac­tion between ver­ti­port and vehi­cle that behaves iden­ti­cal­ly to a real-world coun­ter­part. This sim­u­la­tion will enable deci­sion-mak­ing in the design process through analy­sis and insight, with­out the need for phys­i­cal con­struc­tion.”

Urban-Air Port Founder & Exec­u­tive Chair­man Ricky Sand­hu (right), with CFO Adri­an Zanel­li (left) and Corvin Huber CEO & CTO of Sky­roads (cen­tre) at Farn­bor­ough Air­show

As part of their com­mit­ment to the Euro­pean Commission’s SESAR 3 work pro­gramme, the part­ners “are to enter into a dis­cus­sion regard­ing con­cepts for the opti­mi­sa­tion of ver­ti­port resource util­i­sa­tion (the opti­mi­sa­tion of take-offs and land­ings accord­ing to the para­me­ters pro­vid­ed by the ver­ti­port), and the han­dling of “non-nom­i­nal” events (e.g. short term plan changes, main­te­nance relat­ed avail­abil­i­ty and per­for­mance issues, weath­er chal­lenges etc).”

The knowl­edge shared between UAP and Sky­roads will pave the way, after the suc­cess­ful Coven­try event, for future demon­stra­tion projects in the UK and poten­tial sites in Ger­many and world­wide.

Corvin Huber, CEO and CTO of Sky­roads, com­ment­ed, “With UAP, Sky­roads has found a for­ward-think­ing part­ner with whom we can advance ver­ti­port inte­gra­tion (AAM) into the safe­ty-man­age­ment of the over­all advanced air mobil­i­ty trans­port sys­tem.”

He con­tin­ued, “Since ver­ti­port through­put and effi­cien­cy will be the defin­ing fac­tor for AAM per­for­mance for the fore­see­able future, this work pack­age is of the utmost impor­tance for indus­try as a whole.”

Ricky Sand­hu, Founder and CEO of UAP, added, “This col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ment will ben­e­fit not only our two com­pa­nies, but the wider mar­ket through analy­sis and test­ing of key UATM and ver­ti­port inter­ac­tions.”

Foot­note

Sky­roads AG, based in Munich, Ger­many, was found­ed in 2019 by CEO Corvin Huber. Unit­ed by one goal: “Make fly­ing acces­si­ble for every­one”, the com­pa­ny is devel­op­ing an Auto­mat­ed Air­space Man­age­ment and Vehi­cle Guid­ance Sys­tem (AAVS) to man­age pas­sen­ger and car­go drones over dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed met­ro­pol­i­tan areas.

AAVS enables UAM to scale safe­ly and effi­cient­ly by open­ing a cer­ti­fi­able path­way to automa­tion. The recent­ly con­tract­ed ‘SKYBOT-CAM Sys­tem’ to be oper­a­tional by 2024, is an ear­ly appli­ca­tion of an avi­a­tion-type, cer­ti­fied solu­tion, pro­vid­ing impor­tant val­i­da­tion for auto­mat­ed air trans­port of peo­ple and heavy goods.

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