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Arthur Dallau and Jonas Onland will present a keynote on harmonising urban airspace for a seamless UAM ecosystem. Arthur will outline a strategic governance model that unifies all vertical layers to efficiently coordinate airspace by connecting space, airspace, lower airspace, land and water in a future-proof governance model. He will discuss the need for synchronised Urban Air Mobility operations that enhance urban mobility while prioritising safety. Jonas will introduce Serendipity's Digital Toolbox, aimed at equipping cities with the necessary tools for UAM integration and management. This includes tackling infrastructure, traffic control, regulatory adherence, and public engagement. Together, their insights will illustrate a future where urban skies are transformed into integrated networks of mobility and innovation.

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In this keynote, Wandifadza and Silvio will outline AURORA's contributions to Urban Air Mobility, detailing the project's efforts to integrate unmanned aircraft into urban service networks. They will highlight AURORA's advancements in autonomous flight and the automation of U-space services, which are crucial for ensuring public safety. Additionally, they will touch on the project's unique approach to gaining public acceptance and engaging stakeholders and citizens in co-creation activities. AURORA's work is instrumental in paving the way for UAM applications in emergency services, logistics, and smart city initiatives, making this session a critical insight into the future of urban air transport.

During this session, the panellists will discuss the pivotal moments and obstacles encountered in each project, illuminate the complexities of Urban Air Mobility, and explore forward-thinking solutions and applications.

In the quest to integrate Urban Air Mobility (UAM) into cityscapes, the "Role of Cities in UAM" panel is a pivotal discussion that will focus on the cities' critical role in shaping the UAM narrative, not just as backdrops for operations but as proactive architects of the UAM ecosystem. It will cover the significance of public engagement in UAM development and the cities' efforts to involve citizens in this transformative process. Moreover, the panel will discuss how cities act as dynamic ecosystem builders, balancing technological innovation, regulatory governance, and community involvement to create a sustainable and integrated UAM framework.

In a joint discussion by Maastricht University and Nalantis, their approach to extracting information from legal texts on Urban Air Mobility is explained. This method is useful for identifying relevant laws, applicable rights, duties, and prohibitions for various actors involved, as well as for compliance checking. They report on the final results of their work in Flying Forward 2020, which includes a framework for extracting and generating rules and methods to convert natural language sentences into actionable instructions for drones or their operators. The session includes a quick system demonstration and addresses the challenges faced in deploying this technology at a larger scale or in different domains.

During the past 3 years, notably AURORA and FF2020 partners have developed innovations to advance the technical capabilities of aerial drones. Sensors and systems to improve detect & avoid capabilities, autonomous control systems for drones, interoperability and shared understanding of a scene between edges are some of the research topics and outcomes that will be discussed and debated during this session.

Sustainability aspects of drones are a highly relevant but not yet widely researched topic in the Urban Air Mobility field. The AURORA project will talk about their work done on Sustainable Mobility indicators for UAM and how they were applied during AURORA’s virtual and real-life use cases. From the AiRMOUR side, some surprising findings on the CO2 emissions from UAM operations from cradle to grave will be presented as well as a quantitative model for life cycle emissions from construction, ground infra and flight operations for both small UAS and air taxis.

One of the most obvious benefits of drones is their speed and ability to circumvent traffic jams, bodies of water or other physical barriers that may hinder ground transport. This is why drones are suitable to deliver (urgent) medical goods between medical facilities especially where existing logistics solutions face operational or organisational challenges. Also, drones may be used to gather data for other professionals involved in the acute care chain. AiRMOUR had its focus specifically on emergency medical services. Also, AURORA covered use cases relevant to first responders. The projects will present and discuss project outcomes and lessons with each other and with the audience, in relation to both UAVs and eVTOLS.

Social embracement is often mentioned as a make-or-break factor for scaling drone operations. Both AiRMOUR and AURORA did significant and large-scale work on this topic. The different use cases and numbers of stakeholders reached are among the largest in Europe. Results of the work will be shared in a nutshell, with room for debate on methods, gaps, challenges and next steps.

Simulations and virtualisations can be extremely helpful to test different scenarios and evaluate strategies for the use of drones in a controlled environment. This can save time and money, ensure safety, and improve efficiency. In this session, simulations on response times from AiRMOUR will be discussed, comparing the performance of eVTOLs to ground-based emergency medical vehicles. Can eVTOLs really provide a faster and more efficient way to transport patients to hospitals than ground-based EMS vehicles? In addition, AURORA’s virtual environment that simulates the logistics of urgent medical care is explained. What kind of local data and input parameters are crucial.

This session dives into safety aspects of drones. Partners from AiRMOUR and AURORA will present and discuss their work on supporting technologies that can increase safety levels, autonomous flight capabilities and intelligent path planning, safe landing site detection also in case of degraded GNSS conditions as well as mitigation measures for air and ground risks.

This session will delve into the direct and indirect costs associated with UAM, attractiveness and maturity of UAM business models compared to alternatives and will also cover how organisations can assess their maturity level in terms of business models, purchasing needs, and technology suppliers. Based on the research carried out in AiRMOUR and Flying Forward 2020, the audience will hear about various Business Model Canvasses for emergency medical services, the Digital Toolbox for the procurement of UAM services and the economic feasibility of integrating UAM into existing EMS systems. The panellists will also discuss challenges, remaining research gaps as well as actionable insights for UAM adoption.

Simulations and virtualisations can be extremely helpful to test different scenarios and evaluate strategies for the use of drones in a controlled environment. This can save time and money, ensure safety, and improve efficiency. In this session, simulations on response times from AiRMOUR will be discussed, comparing the performance of eVTOLs to ground-based emergency medical vehicles. Can eVTOLs really provide a faster and more efficient way to transport patients to hospitals than ground-based EMS vehicles? In addition, AURORA’s virtual environment that simulates the logistics of urgent medical care is explained. What kind of local data and input parameters are crucial.

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