Communication-based Infrastructure for Air + Ground Transportation
AeroNet will provide a complete set of services needed for crewed, remote piloted, and fully automated aircraft - to include coordinated air and ground operations.
AeroNet will play a leading roll in the federation of suppliers and solutions to include:
This Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) management system will eventually include all the components needed to accomplish connected and automated air + ground vehicle operations.
Those components will include...
Provides Government, Business and Academia with anonymous real time traffic information
Ensures registered operators are in compliance with Federal, Sate and Local Standards for operational safety
Ensure Low-Altitude aircraft and automated ground vehicles operate within approved areas
Key Strategy Elements
Aligned with USDOT digital infrastructure (DI) activities
Provides Government, Business and Academia with anonymous real time traffic information
Ensures registered operators are in compliance with Federal, Sate and Local Standards for operational safety
Ensure Low-Altitude aircraft and automated ground vehicles operate within approved areas
Mathematical Models
Before any air or ground operations take place, a set of travelways and intersections will be defined according to FAA regulations and local preferences. The travelways will provide a well-organized set of paths for all comingled operations including entry and exit points, and interaction points between air and ground vehicles. The travelways will be semi-permanent in developed areas with the ability to make updates when certain paths are not available or new paths are needed. In undeveloped areas, ad-hoc travelways can be defined at the time of need to support activities.
Complete Set of Services
The FAA concept of operation anticipates significant, comingled operation of business cases that make use of the new class of air vehicles. It does not provide details on how traffic will be organized and managed or how the federated system will be accomplished.
Other Features
Attributes such as travel speed ranges and headways will be included so that they will be available for the flight and ground controls of individual vehicles.
Logical Rules
The rules will include things like separation distances between travelways in opposing directions, establishing rights-of-way at intersections, and expected practices when detect-and-avoid situations present.
Media
A combination of wide-area network and short-range wireless media is expected to deliver information to vehicles prior to operations and during operations if needed. Vehicles will be expected to accomplish fully automated operation once they are provisioned with travelway information and a mission plan. Only updates will be needed while enroute.
Organization
A common organization will be needed to assure a uniform and ubiquitous implementation on a wide scale so that all users have an opportunity for a uniform experience with equitable access. The organization will support itself by becoming a marketplace for platforms & infrastructure, consulting services, serving as a broker of information - standards and practices, operations - takeoff landing airport fees, small fee from every mission - like gas tax. Capacity brokerage like Uber. Could post job on AeroNet, independent operator of drone fleet for movement of person or cargo. *see RailInc. Provide small drone operators with jobs, Google-like directory for AAM service provider.
