Urban Air Mobility Overview — the European Landscape
Vadim Kramar, George Nikolakopoulos, Juha Röning, Filippo Tomasello
Abstract
Future small aircraft systems, including those having a pilot on-board, remotely operated or piloted, and fully autonomous, will be capable of operating in often unstructured and dynamic environments in a safe and efficient manner and simultaneously work towards assigned mission objectives without being extensively controlled or continuously supervised by human operators. Air is a third dimension to the traditional transportation modalities and mobility solutions that typically had not been earlier considered as a part of Smart City planning. And in order to foster its enabling this paper gives an introductory overview of Urban Air Mobility and its elements. The overview includes the historical retrospective, the observation of European initiatives and legislation, the statements on the standardisation effort, as well as clarification of relevant terms and key elements of Urban Air Mobility available at the time of work on this publication.