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Ing. Martina Hlavatá

2026, Transportation Research Procedia, Amsterdam, Elsevier B.V.), p. 328-337), ISSN 2352-1465

The integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into shared airspace has created a need for clear and equitable management principles within Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM). Despite regulatory and technological progress, the concept of fairness in UTM remains undefined, posing challenges for system design and stakeholder trust. This paper examines the notion of fairness in UTM based on stakeholder perspectives collected through the CORUS five project initiative. The study highlights the importance of transparent, consistently applied rules and mission-based prioritisation, and emphasizes that fairness must be embedded as a foundational principle in future UTM frameworks to ensure sustainable and inclusive airspace access.

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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

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.

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2024, New Trends in Civil Aviation: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on New Trends in Civil Aviation 2024, Praha, České vysoké učení technické v Praze), p. 269-273), ISBN 978-80-01-07181-6, ISSN 2694-7854

The development of unmanned aviation is constantly accelerating and is currently in a situation where it is necessary to pay very close attention to the harmonization of regulations across countries to achieve a unified environment as is already known worldwide from manned aviation. The aim of this paper is to highlight the challenges facing the harmonisation of the operational environment of unmanned aircraft systems in the European Union and the needs that are constantly emerging. Thus, the approaches of individual Member States and Associated States, the level of implementation of harmonised regulations and their national deviations are being analysed. Based on this analysis, the different diverging requirements and approaches are identified and the challenges to be met in the coming years are defined, to consider the EU environment as harmonized also for UAS operations.

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