NSF-PIRE Workshop: US-Germany CPS Collaborations
Assured CPS Autonomy for 3D Urban Transportation: Drones, Flying Cars and Beyond

Virtual | June 9-10, 2021

There has been a tremendous amount of interest in the industrial community in the development of personal air transportation. These are low passenger count, semi-autonomous aircraft which are capable of operating in an urban environment so as to provide the third dimension to reduce transit time in congested urban areas. It is envisioned that air space above major transportation corridors such as freeways and subway/railway tracks. While there is a huge amount of work on issues surrounding vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) airframes and electrically powered aircraft, there has been less attention paid to the levels of autonomy, centralization/decentralization needed as well as air traffic management issues. We propose to have a workshop to flesh out the issues in developing the technology and policy enablers for 3D Urban Transportation.

COVID-19: Originally scheduled for March of 2020, the workshop was postponed due to the pandemic. Given the importance of the topic we do not want to delay further. While we would love to meet in person we do not feel that it is the right time yet, especially given international travel. The workshop will be held virtually over Zoom.

  O R G A N I Z E R S  

 SHANKAR SASTRY | ALEXANDER PRETSCHNER | CLAIRE TOMLIN | WERNER DAMM | JANOS SZTIPANOVITS