Published:
2024, 13th International Conference on Air Transport – INAIR 2024, Challenging the Status Quo in Aviation, Žilinská univerzita v Žilině), p. 360-371), ISSN 2352-1465
Annotation:
The paper is focused on ensuring fair access to airspace by defining priorities in the area of unmanned aviation. Besides that, we explore existing approaches and strategies and propose novelties to enhance safety and efficiency. By addressing these issues, fairness and prioritisation are essential enablers, to establish operations of a large number of drones, and thus to ensure a wide range of benefits of drone and U-space operations. To achieve this, a thorough analysis of existing approaches towards ensuring fair priorities has been conducted, taking the example of manned aviation and proposing a new approach. The outcome is a list of UTM priorities and defined limitations that still need to be overcome.