How to Integrate Vertiport Operations Into the Airspace? Introducing the EUREKA Project

Kurzfassung

Innovative Air Mobility (IAM), as envisioned by the European Aviation Safety Agency, is "the safe, secure and sustainable air mobility of passengers and cargo enabled by new-generation technologies integrated into multimodal transportation system." Vertiports, new aircraft and new air traffic management systems are essential for implementing IAM. The European project EUREKA, running from 2023 to 2026, aims at enabling key solutions for vertiports. Solutions for arrival and departure for vertiports, collaborative traffic management, how to deal with emergencies and disruptions also the network flow, capacity and operational management are developed in the project. This paper introduces the EUREKA project and reports on the early progress.