System of and method for automated flight planning for urban air mobility

Abstract

Described herein relates to a system and method of optimizing a flight path of an aerial vehicle within an urban air environment. As such, the flight planning system may be configured to provide management and traffic management services to multiple Urban Air Mobility (hereinafter 'UAM') operators. Additionally, the flight planning system may comprise Low-Altitude Airspace Management Subsystem (hereinafter “LAMS”), which may generate a nodal network of flyable airspace, routing and/or intersection information for all vertiport pairs, and a Low-Altitude Traffic Management Subsystem (hereinafter “LTMS”), which may detect and/or may resolve potential conflicts of flight operations and/or may generate at least one conflict-free 4D trajectory. Additionally, the flight planning system may be configured to input at least one flight operation request (e.g., origin vertiport, destination vertiport, departure time, and/or arrival time), such that the flight planning system may generate conflict-free 4D trajectories while evaluating system costs and/or equity among operators.