SAFIR MED Project

Safe and Flexible Integration of Advanced U-Space Services Focusing on Medical Air Mobility

The SAFIR-Med project’s vision is to achieve safe, sustainable, socially accepted and socially beneficial urban air mobility. SAFIR-Med represents all value chain actors and stakeholder as either project partner (ATC, USPs, Operators, UAS Manufacturers, cities) or formal associate partner (major customers, technology & service providers) at a representative international level. Five unmanned UAV platforms (passenger eVTOL, Hydrogen fuel cell VTOL, AED medical drone, X8 medical transport) will be combined with manned aviation in real life exercises validating technology in real urban environment.

Technology

Challenges for SAFIR-Med are to manage the high density of UAS traffic with safety, ensuring priority to drones, supporting medical operations, when needed. This will be accomplished by providing flight authorisations and ensuring deconfliction between drones at strategic, pre-tactical and tactical level. This includes allocation of areas of operations and validation of “free” trajectories requested by UAS operators. Then, to ensure medical drones’ priority it will be required to enable the usage of pre-defined corridors, activated when needed, for the benefit of UAS operating in emergency as well as for inter UAM connections.

This concept is a first step that will evolve based on experience acquired during this demonstration and emerging capabilities.

Objectives

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