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Urban air mobility is an expected new solution for satisfying mobility needs within and among densely urbanized city areas as well as for increasing airport accessibility. Transport services are expected to be realized by connected flying vehicles, currently experimented by several industries. An important issue concerns the definition of a suitable aerial network framework that allows realizing flight operations at low altitudes by using stable data transmission among flying vehicles and Air Traffic Control centers. This paper proposes, and discusses the implication of, a three-dimensional Urban Aerial Network (3D-UAN) that includes the third (vertical) dimension to allow flying vehicles to be integrated into the airspace current procedures. A suitable link cost function is also defined. The required data - both off-line and in real-time - and the way they should be communicated among flying vehicles, and between flying vehicles and the Control center, to find optimal paths between relevant nodes and ensure safe operations are explored. The main aspects to simulate this distributed architecture are considered from the perspective of satisfying transport network properties and user’s needs.
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Ditta, C.C., Postorino, M.N. (2023). A 3D Urban Aerial Network for New Mobility Solutions. In: Braubach, L., Jander, K., Bădică, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XV. IDC 2022. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1089. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29104-3_30
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