One of the great challenges of the coming decades will be to build the necessary infrastructure to organize air vehicles in urban areas.
We have no doubt that if any institution on this planet knows how to handle complicated situations and knows what it means to navigate through the air, it is NASA. However, if it turns out complicated to organize the many times chaotic traffic terrestrial, imagine doing it with the aerial. He plan that we will show you next has the acronym DRF And as NASA says on its website:
DRF provides an open foundational layer (known as the DRF marketplace) for the exchange of data and reasoning among the many systems that seamlessly interact in highly complex and dense aerospace operations.
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As you can see in the short video that the North American organization published at the time about the DRF system, It does not seem like an easy task to coordinate future air traffic of our cities, let alone achieve the fluidity of traffic necessary to ensure that both drones, air taxis and other types of air vehicles coexist in the air, minimizing as much as possible the risks associated with the activity. He plan was devised in the year 2021but since air transport has not yet evolved enough for us to already have examples of the coexistence of vehicles above our heads, it seems that years of experimentation and computer simulations still remain.
Since the air transport system in cities seems to have a point three dimensional which land transport lacks, the human being should rely on computer systems to be able to know all the variables when embarking on a flight. For this, it seems that the NASA plans with this system of organization they would have two goals:
- Develop the so-called DRF Accelerator, which would make it possible to create prototypes of key points in the system in order to test its operation.
- Launch this DRF Accelerator, so that companies and entities involved in future air traffic are aware of the steps to follow to maintain a well-prepared transport system.
NASA claims they would be thousands of vehicles those who would cross the urban skywith what it would be necessary to achieve cross some barriers that are supposed to make it difficult to implement such an ambitious plan. These barriers would be system complexitythe need for automate tasks and the viability of business models. The conclusion, as summarized as possible, implies knowing that the human being would have an important supervisory role, but would depend on real-time data to be able to carry out the next big infrastructure of the big cities: air highways. It has taken decades, but it seems that the technology envisioned by the mad scientist of ‘Back to the Future’, Emmett Brown, can finally be applied. Get that old DeLorean off the ground!
Founder Dwight D Eisenhower Foundation date 07-29-1958 Alternative name National Aeronautics and Space Administration Number of employees 18000