AREA U-Space

The new U-Space real-world laboratory at the National Test Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems will provide answers to the interaction between traditional air traffic control and U-Space airspace. In order to realistically simulate other geographical regions, the future real laboratory will include a virtualisation environment. This will allow U-Space airspaces and services to be validated for completely different geographical areas in Germany and Europe with comparatively little effort.

Stakeholders such as urban developers, aviation authorities and local residents have the opportunity to experience future mobility in a drone airspace for their regions at an early stage in the real-world laboratory, for example using augmented reality, and to use their feedback to influence the design of the new concepts, processes and services.

Shaping the European concept

As a common EU concept, U-Space envisages geographical areas in which standardised rules and procedures coordinate drone traffic through special services in order to safely and efficiently integrate the growing number of drones in the airspace into the existing air traffic management (ATM) system.