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2 A National Vision for Advanced Aerial Mobility
Pages 19-30

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From page 19...
... BASIS FOR THE VISION The national vision for advanced aerial mobility is based on several key findings and concepts reviewed throughout this study: • Regulation for safety is inherent in the National Airspace System. It plays a necessary role in design, standardization, and operation of the National Airspace System.
From page 20...
... If offshore opportunities motivate investment, it will be valuable to know that and encourage regulators to reassess how they are restricting development and deployment of advanced aerial mobility. • Regulators and private industry play crucial roles, and these will have to evolve in the face of a new mission versus the orientation of the past 60 years of air mobility, which focused on ensuring safety in a gradually evolving National Airspace System dominated by commercial air travel.
From page 21...
... Gaps in System Characteristics The success of advanced aerial mobility depends on introducing a new level of capability into the National Airspace System, including the airspace itself, communications methods, air traffic management (ATM) supporting high traffic density, integration of autonomous flight operations, and new types of infrastructure.
From page 22...
... The development of standardized command nonpayload communication capability has been stymied as a result. Overall, a lack of a globally accepted communications architecture is a key gap to solve for and has follow-on impacts for choices and design around ATM solutions for advanced aerial mobility, including autonomous systems.
From page 23...
... This is a complex undertaking, as detailed in this report's coverage of the challenges around autonomy, and involves technical, systems engineering, and human factors, among other considerations, in order to succeed. The expectation is that early applications of advanced aerial mobility will thus work within the scale limitations of today's National Airspace System.
From page 24...
... Barriers to Executing the Vision The barriers to executing the vision relate to the coordination required in order to introduce innovation into the National Airspace System in a way that preserves safety and addresses the needs of all stakeholders. Given the increasing complexity of operations envisioned in the National Airspace System as well as the pace of innovation across the many disciplines relevant to advanced aerial mobility, this coordination is instrumental in determining
From page 25...
... Regulators will want technology developed to support advanced air mobility to be compliant with all current and foreseeable future regulations and meet universally accepted performance criteria. But beyond this, advanced aerial mobility brings changes to the assumptions under which today's regulatory function evolved and with it requires a new way that the regulatory function must work.
From page 26...
... These changes to enable advanced aerial mobility cannot occur on their own and cannot be accomplished by a single party -- not even a regulator with the authority to do so. The recent rewrite of the Federal Aviation Regulations Part 23 certification rules is an example, bringing together regulators, industry and trade associations, standards development organizations, and others to complete it.4 Experience, data, and coordination between the public and private sectors are critical requirements to enacting change, and standardization plays a central role.
From page 27...
... Finding: Noise from aircraft, and other transportation modes, is a complex topic spanning acoustics, the physiological way humans experience noise, and the psychological perceptions listeners have of the source of the noise and what it represents to them. A large body of research spanning this area has been conducted over the past century, with learning outcomes relevant to modern aviation.6 Admittedly, noise from advanced aerial mobility vehicles will be different from noise from commercial aircraft or helicopters.
From page 28...
... Business case closure will be largely dependent on the cost associated with solving the aforementioned barriers and bringing cost to the consumer in line with traditional modes of ground-based transportation or by creating value with respect to the new locations it can uniquely serve or the time it can save. The value delivered to the consumer by utilizing advanced aerial mobility, whether it be for simple package delivery or point-to-point personal transportation, will define acceptance and economic viability.
From page 29...
... Standards also serve to support future expansion of capability and growth while managing and encapsulating complexity. The private sector possesses the resources, capital, and capability to execute on addressing the challenges posed by implementation of advanced aerial mobility at increasing levels of complexity and density.
From page 30...
... Over the course of this study, it has become clear that the advanced aerial mobility market is poised for massive and rapid evolution and growth over the coming decade and that many other countries are viewing the advanced aerial mobility opportunity space as a potentially transformative societal element and emergent driving force of their economy. Mastery of advanced aerial mobility, given its wide-ranging impacts on society and the economy, will be one of the highlights of civilization.


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