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	On November 21, 2018, a total of 13 independent organisations took part in an event at [[Manchester Airport]] coordinated by UTM Service Provider Altitude Angel and [[Air navigation service provider\|Air Navigation Service Provider]] for the United Kingdom, [[NATS Holdings\|NATS]], which demonstrated the safe integration of unmanned traffic into controlled airspace.		On November 21, 2018, a total of 13 independent organisations took part in an event at [[Manchester Airport]] coordinated by UTM Service Provider Altitude Angel and [[Air navigation service provider\|Air Navigation Service Provider]] for the United Kingdom, [[NATS Holdings\|NATS]], which demonstrated the safe integration of unmanned traffic into controlled airspace.

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	The EU regulations now requires implementation of a UTM system in order to support U-space by 26/1-2023.		The EU regulations now requires implementation of a UTM system in order to support U-space by 26/1-2023.

	~~==References==~~
	~~{{reflist}}~~

	[[Category:Regulation of unmanned aerial vehicles]]		[[Category:Regulation of unmanned aerial vehicles]]
	[[Category:Air traffic management]]		[[Category:Air traffic management]]

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'''Unmanned aircraft system traffic management''' (UTM) is an air traffic management ecosystem under development for autonomously controlled operations of [[unmanned aerial system]]s (UAS) by the [[FAA]], [[NASA]], other federal partner agencies, and industry. They are collaboratively exploring concepts of operation, data exchange requirements, and a supporting framework to enable multiple UAS operations beyond visual line-of-sight at altitudes under 400 ft above ground level in airspace where FAA air traffic services are not provided.

[[File:UTM schematic.png|thumb|A scheme of UAS Traffic Management system <ref name = "UTM_magazine">{{Cite journal| last1 = Vinogradov| first1 = Evgenii| last2 = Minucci| first2 = Franco| last3 = Pollin| first3 = Sofie| title = Wireless Communication for Safe UAVs: From Long-Range Deconfliction to Short-Range Collision Avoidance| journal = IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine| volume = 15| issue = 2| pages = 88–95| year = 2020| doi = 10.1109/MVT.2020.2980014| arxiv = 1910.13744}}</ref>]]

UTM is separate from but complementary to the FAA's Air Traffic Management ([[air traffic management|ATM]]) system. UTM development will ultimately identify services, roles/responsibilities, information architecture, data exchange protocols, software functions, infrastructure, and performance requirements for enabling the management of low-altitude uncontrolled UAS operations.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Baum|first=Michael S.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1258660339|title=Unmanned aircraft systems traffic management : utm.|date=2021|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-000-37951-8|location=[S.l.]|oclc=1258660339}}</ref>

A Research Transition Team (RTT) has been established between the FAA, NASA and industry to coordinate the UTM initiative. Areas of focus include concept and use case development, data exchange and information architecture, communications and navigation, and sense and avoid. Research and testing will identify airspace operations requirements to enable safe visual and beyond visual line-of-sight UAS flights in low-altitude airspace. FAA published a UAS Traffic Management Research Plan in 2017.<ref>[https://www.faa.gov/uas/research/utm/media/FAA_NASA_UAS_Traffic_Management_Research_Plan.pdf UAS Traffic Management Research Plan]</ref>

On July 18, 2023, the FAA released its Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Implementation Plan, which provides the steps it, and others, will need to take to safely enable AAM operations as part of UTM. <ref>{{cite news|url=https://interactive.aviationtoday.com/avionicsmagazine/july-august-2023/industry-clamors-for-uas-traffic-management-regulatory-framework/|title=Industry Clamors for UAS Traffic Management Regulatory Framework|access-date=17 December 2023|last=Host|first=Pat|date=1 July 2023|work=Avionics International}}</ref>
== Main functions of UTM==
The main functions of UTM include:<ref name = "UTM_magazine"/>
* Strategically organizing the airspace
* Ensuring the cooperation of unmanned and manned aviation through a link to ATM
* Ensuring collision-free navigation of multiple UAVs <ref>{{Cite book| last1 = Vinogradov| first1 = Evgenii| last2 = Kumar| first2 = A. V. S. Sai Bhargav| last3 = Minucci| first3 = Franco| last4 = Pollin| first4 = Sofie| last5 = Natalizio| first5 = Enrico| chapter = Remote ID for separation provision and multi-agent navigation| title = 2023 IEEE/AIAA 42nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)| year = 2023| pages = 1–10| doi =10.1109/DASC58513.2023.10311133| arxiv = 2309.00843| isbn = 979-8-3503-3357-2}}</ref>
* Ensuring transparency of drone operations to citizens
* Controlling air traffic through flight permissions
* Dynamically adapting drone operations based on circumstances (e.g., weather conditions, available telecommunication capabilities).

== Operation Zenith ==
{{Main|Operation Zenith}}
On November 21, 2018, a total of 13 independent organisations took part in an event at [[Manchester Airport]] coordinated by UTM Service Provider Altitude Angel and [[Air navigation service provider|Air Navigation Service Provider]] for the United Kingdom, [[NATS Holdings|NATS]], which demonstrated the safe integration of unmanned traffic into controlled airspace.

It is regarded as one of the first live-demonstrations of its kind<ref>{{Cite web|last=Press|date=2018-11-23|title=Aviation partnership takes to the skies in UK-first to fly drones safely in controlled airspace|url=https://www.suasnews.com/2018/11/aviation-partnership-takes-to-the-skies-in-uk-first-to-fly-drones-safely-in-controlled-airspace/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=sUAS News - The Business of Drones|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Wright|first=Mike|date=2019-10-05|title='Drone lanes' and new air controls needed to manage growing number of devices, report says|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/05/drone-lanes-new-air-controls-needed-manage-growing-number-devices/|access-date=2020-06-25|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> and was considered to be the "most technically complex and comprehensive demonstration in the world so far of a UTM system".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Butterworth-Hayes|first=Philip|date=2018-11-22|title=Operation Zenith provides landmark demonstration of UTM technology capabilities|url=https://www.unmannedairspace.info/uncategorized/operation-zenith-provides-landmark-demonstration-utm-technology-capabilities/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=Unmanned airspace|language=en-US}}</ref>

== U-space ==
The [[Single European Sky ATM Research|SESAR]] Joint Undertaking, which is a public-private partnership supported and funded by the European Union, Eurocontrol and a number of industry partners, has defined the U-Space Blueprint.<ref>[https://www.sesarju.eu/sites/default/files/documents/reports/U-space%20Blueprint%20brochure%20final.PDF U-space blueprint]</ref> U-space is a set of new services relying on a high level of digitalisation and automation of functions and specific procedures designed to support safe, efficient and secure access to airspace for large numbers of drones.
The EU regulations now requires implementation of a UTM system in order to support U-space by 26/1-2023.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Regulation of unmanned aerial vehicles]]
[[Category:Air traffic management]]

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