[MUSIC] Hello, and welcome everybody to the next lecture on Urban Air Mobility. My name is Bernd Korn, I'm working for DLR. At DLR I'm responsible for the pilot assistant department, which is doing research in a lot of fields of flight guidance for example, of course, as the name says. Cockpit research, but we cover as well future a TM concepts and of course that's why I'm here, Urban Air Mobility, US Traffic Management and so on. This lecture will be about US traffic management which is one pillar you need to enable future urban air mobility concepts. Just to remember when we look at the ecosystem of UAM, we have of course the vehicle, this is the most prominent thing. This is where the people will sit in but it's not the only thing, for the vehicle we need of course sites where we land and where we take off. So the infrastructure on ground needs to be there and of course there needs to be an operator who earns money with that transporting people from A to B. We will only get this kind of future mobility when it will be accepted. So the acceptance of people that this kind of mobility is a value from them and it needs to be implemented at their city and so on. Is a key for, yeah, getting this done. Besides these three activities, we have as well, the traffic management because we think of a lot of air taxis, drones, delivery drones or whatever inspection drones. That need to come together in one airspace and fly around, and that is by far more than we have in the air today. And so of course a good traffic management is absolutely necessary. And so within this lecture, I will go a little bit more in detail into the elements of the US traffic management and on the infrastructure on ground to be precise, on the so called virtual part, these two elements will be part of this lecture. People have been dreaming about this kind of mobility, personal air vehicles flying around in cities for decades. And for example, I give you here a short video clip out of one of my favorite movies, Star Wars episode two, where you might see now, don't watch that Senator palpatine, watch at the background where you see a lot of vehicles flying around. And they are not just flying around, they are somehow ordered. They seem to be flying at air routes, air streets and so on. And if you look what current concepts are about. For example, here from the FAA from the NextGen ConOps, you see, we are talking about streets for UAM Corridors, where for one direction, all UAM vehicle will fly. So what they have, I thought about 20 years ago for when making this movie, is a valid concept, what we are doing here in research and what is going to be established sooner or later. Another example what you need is showing in this video here, where you see a lot of vehicles and you see Obi wan Kenobi flying a strange object, exactly through the stream and he's not hit by all the vehicles, because they see him and they avoid him. So they fly around. It's not always, I would say a very gentle maneuver what the vehicles do to avoid him, but in the end they do not hit him. So what we definitely need here as well is not only the traffic management that seems to sort the traffic flows, but as well as some kind of detect and avoid and that will go into that as well. And the third part is about the vertical, roam the infrastructure on ground, how we can land, where we can land and what kind of operations and procedures do we need for that. And again, I would like to show you a small video from the Star Wars movie. And here you see two vehicles are landing and what is now completely different to the rest of the movies or when we see flying vehicles here are only two, and there's the youth space, they useful lending. And when you think about all the vehicles which are in the air, where should they land. And this is definitely something where you can say it is a little bit open, at least for those guys making the movies. They have not really an idea how to really demonstrate how many aircraft can land and can take off at inverted part or such a landing pet. But when you look at what people think of today's infrastructure or infrastructure that should be established sooner or later, like here, the example of Uber. They look pretty much to those landing platforms we have seen. In the Star Wars movies, we talked about Vito's so vertical takeoff and landing vehicles and that's just the same version we have for urban air mobility. Well, for most vehicles we have for that. [MUSIC]
