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Anais do SITRAER · XIX SITRAER 2022

Anais do SITRAER – XIX SITRAER (2022)

Blockchain-Based Traffic Management for Advanced Air Mobility

  • Ítalo Romani de Oliveira
  • Thiago Matsumoto
  • Euclides Carlos Pinto Neto

Boeing Research & Technology Brazil

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Evento
XIX SITRAER – São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil, 25 a 27 de outubro de 2022
Volume
Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium · ISSN 2448-1912
Páginas
90–99
Editora
Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Transporte Aéreo (SBTA)
Editores
Giovanna Miceli Ronzani Borille, Rogéria de Arantes Gomes, Evandro José da Silva, Mauro Caetano, Cláudia Azevedo Pereira

Abstract

The large public interest in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) will soon lead to congested skies overhead cities, analogously to what happened with other transportation means, including commercial aviation. In the latter case, the combination of large distances and demanded number of flights is such that a system with centralized control, with most of the traffic control decisions made by human operators, is safe. However, for AAM, it is expected a much higher demand for flights, because it will be used for people’s daily commutes. Thus, higher automation levels will become a requirement for coordinating this traffic, because of its higher complexity, which might not be effectively managed by humans. The establishment of fixed air routes can abate complexity, however at the cost of limiting traffic capacity and decreasing flight efficiency. Another alternative is the use of a powerful central system based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and / or other advanced algorithms, which would allow flexible trajectories and higher efficiency. However, such system would require concentrated investment, could contain Single-Points-of-Failure (SPoFs), would be a highly sought target of malicious attacks, and would be subject to periods of unavailability. This work proposes a new technology that solves the problem of managing the high complexity of the AAM traffic with a secure distributed approach, without the need for a proprietary centralized automation system. This technology enables distributed airspace allocation management and conflict resolution by means of trusted shared data structures and associated smart contracts running on a blockchain ecosystem. This way, it greatly reduces the risk of system outages due to SPoFs, by allowing peer-to-peer conflict resolution, and being more resilient to failures in the ground communication infrastructure. Furthermore, it provides priority-based balancing mechanisms that help to regulate fairness among participants in the utilization of the airspace.

Keywords: Advanced Air Mobility (AAM); Blockchain; Smart Contracts; Resiliency; Geolocalization

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ABNT

OLIVEIRA, Ítalo Romani de; MATSUMOTO, Thiago; PINTO NETO, Euclides Carlos. Blockchain-Based Traffic Management for Advanced Air Mobility. In: SIMPÓSIO DE TRANSPORTE AÉREO, 19., 2022, São José dos Campos. Anais [...]. São José dos Campos: SBTA, 2022. p. 90-99. ISSN 2448-1912. Disponível em: https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit132.html.

APA

Oliveira, Í. R., Matsumoto, T., & Pinto Neto, E. C. (2022). Blockchain-Based Traffic Management for Advanced Air Mobility. In G. M. R. Borille, R. A. Gomes, E. J. Silva, M. Caetano, & C. A. Pereira (Eds.), Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium (pp. 90–99). SBTA. https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit132.html

BibTeX
@inproceedings{oliveira2022blockchainbased,
  author = {Oliveira, Ítalo Romani de and Matsumoto, Thiago and Pinto Neto, Euclides Carlos},
  title = {{Blockchain-Based Traffic Management for Advanced Air Mobility}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium},
  editor = {Borille, Giovanna Miceli Ronzani and Gomes, Rogéria de Arantes and Silva, Evandro José da and Caetano, Mauro and Pereira, Cláudia Azevedo},
  pages = {90--99},
  year = {2022},
  address = {São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil},
  publisher = {Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Transporte Aéreo (SBTA)},
  issn = {2448-1912},
  url = {https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit132.html}
}