Daily briefing

SPATIO closes out three years of U-space work on capacity and conflict resolution

ENAIRE hosted SPATIO's final dissemination event after three years of SESAR research into U-space separation management. The project links strategic conflict resolution, dynamic capacity management and tactical conflict prediction and resolution, including multi-USSP demonstrations and both ground-based and onboard extensions.

High-density drone traffic cannot be managed only by checking two planned routes for intersection. Capacity has to be constrained before takeoff when demand is too high, and tactical services still need to resolve conflicts that emerge during flight.

Operators and U-space service providers should examine where responsibility changes between pre-flight authorization, strategic deconfliction and tactical intervention, including how resolution instructions reach the pilot or aircraft and what happens when the link fails.