Laying the cornerstone of Advanced Air Mobility infrastructure: A Low-Altitude Airspace Surveillance System Optimized for Reliability, Robustness, Resilience, and Cost

This proposed research project aims to: (1) analyze and assess the reliability, robustness, and resilience of surveillance systems for detecting and tracking Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) traffic in the low-altitude national airspace system (NAS); then, building on research findings, (2) develop a sensor network design software tool to design a surveillance sensor network for AAM optimized for reliability, robustness, resilience, and cost, across major cities of the state of Ohio; and, lastly, (3) formulate a safety protocol for AAM traffic managers and operators to follow during AAM surveillance outages or when the performance of the AAM surveillance system is impaired due to failure events.

Language

  • English

Project

  • Status: Active
  • Funding: $150,000.00
  • Contract Numbers:

    42049

    136977

    123151

  • Sponsor Organizations:

    Federal Highway Administration

    1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
    Washington, DC  United States  20590
  • Managing Organizations:

    Ohio Department of Transportation

    Research Program
    1980 West Broad Street
    Columbus, OH  United States  43223
  • Project Managers:

    Spriggs, Jennifer

  • Performing Organizations:

    Kent State University

    Kent, Ohio  United States  44242
  • Principal Investigators:

    Shihab, Syed

  • Start Date: 20250212
  • Expected Completion Date: 20260812
  • Actual Completion Date: 0

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01944774
  • Record Type: Research project
  • Source Agency: Ohio Department of Transportation
  • Contract Numbers: 42049, 136977, 123151
  • Files: RIP, STATEDOT
  • Created Date: Feb 3 2025 10:50AM