Trimarchi, Andrea (Università di Verona)

Technological Certainties and Regulatory Doubts: An Overlook at Unmanned Aviation and Urban Air Mobility in Europe

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Manned/Unmanned Aviation II" (WeB2), Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 16:00−16:20, Room 130

2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 6-9, 2023, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 23, 2024

Abstract

This paper explores the current status of regulation concerning unmanned aviation in Europe. In particular, the paper takes into consideration the technological and regulatory advancement pertaining to Urban Air Mobility (UAM), which is believed to revolutionise traditional air transport, as we currently know it. As the paper discusses, UAM does not only raise issues of a technical nature, but also, and more importantly, from a legal, sociological and economic perspective. In this context, for example, the use of drones in urban environments does lay emphasis on a necessary coordination between air traffic management (ATM) and unmanned traffic management (UTM), as well as on the need to regulate entirely new categories of aerospace infrastructures, such as vertiports or U-space.