SAFIR-Med project

SAFIR-Med is an EU project funded by the #H2020 research and innovation programme through the SESAR Joint Undertaking. SAFIR-Med stands for Safe and Flexible Integration of Advanced U-Space Services Focusing on Medical Air Mobility. The vision of SAFIR-Med project is to demonstrate ways to achieve safe, sustainable, socially accepted and socially beneficial urban air mobility which will contribute to the EU healthcare system, by ensuring that future generations will continue to democratically have access to the best cure and care. Technologies of all partners will be leveraged to make use of the maximum number of U-Space services towards the highest possible operational safety level, including advanced Detect And Avoid U-space services. The demonstrations will enable involved cities to get acquainted with their role in U-space management and keep up with relevant regulatory changes in order to use #UAM technology for the benefit of their citizens. Our demonstrations will take place in the city of Antwerp and the city of Aachen including the MAHHL trans-border region, and a de-risking exercise will take place at the DronePort test-facility in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. We will further validate results achieved by enhancing the real demonstrations through large-scale simulations in order to test the maximum airspace capacity and then further validating our results by simulating demonstrations in two additional locations in Europe, namely Athens, Greece and Prague, Czech Republic. Lessons learnt will be documented in a Performance Assessment and recommendations report, providing refinements to the current U-space architecture principles and creating measurable indicators for UAM which will enable Smart Cities to include UAM in their Transport Roadmaps and set relevant measurable goals aligned with the current #SmartCity concept and standards.