What is Future Flight?
Future Flight is the broad name of air taxis (think driverless helicopters for short-distance flights), deliveries (think drones delivering your Amazon parcel) or air freight (drones providing supplies and resources where they are time critical).
Many organisations, in the UK and globally, are developing novel vehicle technologies covering drones, advanced air mobility vehicles and zero-carbon regional aircraft. These novel aircraft will enable the creation of new markets worth over $675 billion by 2050.
To benefit from these new markets in autonomous air logistics, air taxis in dense urban environments and distributed, sub-regional aviation whilst maintaining high safety levels, every aspect of the wider aviation system needs to develop radically and quickly. For example:
- air space management systems must evolve
- new infrastructure concepts must be designed
- cyber-secure, connected digital systems are required
- new business models created.
In addition, new regulations and standards in many areas must be developed by the UK Civil Aviation Authority and public concerns must be addressed around:
- noise
- sustainability
- intrusion
- safety.
Read more about the UKRI Future Flight challenge here.
Social Sustainability
Social sustainability is the process of creating sustainable, successful places that promote well-being by understanding what people need from the places they live and work.
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