TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Survey Scope, Objective & Conditions
Terms & Explanations
Targeted Participant Categories
CONCLUSIONS
Summary of the Principal Results & Conclusions
Respondent Organisations & Respondents
Sector Involvement
Size
Participating Countries
Language Used to Complete Survey
Current & Possible Future Respondent Activies
General Comprehension
Participation in Standard Producing Organisations
The Responding Companies & Organisations – Names & Countries
Respondant Organisations & Respondents – Review
Services
Current Availability in the Respondant’s Country
Services Currently Supplied by Respondents
Services Most Urgently Required
When will the Following Services be Available in your Country
Desired Urgency to Make Services Available
U-space
Preferred Airspace Reconfiguration Concepts
Rules & Regulations – Need for Specifications
Roles & Responsibilities – Need for Clarification
Business & Financial Aspects
The U-space Concept – Degree of Maturity
The U-space Concept – What is Currently Missing
Concepts Based on Immature or Non-Existant Technologies
Standards
Standards – Possible Participation
General Standard-related Matters
Do the Required Standards for the Following Services Exist
Standards – Requirements
Suggested Additional European-wide Standards
Requirement for standards currently under consideration by ISO and interest to contribute to this standards producing effort
E-Registration
Availability & Cost
Annual Cost in €
Minimum Age
UAS Geographical Zones (Geo-zones)
Existing Geo-Zones
Responsability – Management of Geo-zones & Geo-Awareness Service Provision
Accountable Geo-Awareness Manager
Is There a Charge for the Geo-Awareness Service?
What the U-Space Insight Survey set out to learn
U-space is one of those terms that means slightly different things to different people, which is exactly why a survey of this kind was worth doing. Before you can ask whether the industry is ready for U-space, you have to find out what operators, manufacturers and service providers actually understand it to be, and what services they expect to need. This survey went looking for those answers.
The conclusions cover a lot of ground: who responded and from which countries, which sectors they work in, how big their organisations are, and how well the concept of U-space is genuinely understood across the community. There is also a frank look at which services are available today in respondents' own countries versus which they expect to see in the future.
Why the gap between today and tomorrow matters
The most interesting findings tend to sit in the difference between current availability and expected future need. That gap is where investment decisions get made and where regulators have to decide how fast to move. The survey also recorded participation in standards-producing organisations, which is a useful proxy for how seriously a respondent is engaged with the formal side of the field.
As with all of these studies, the document is in English only and is meant to be read section by section. The table of contents above maps the structure so you can jump straight to the part that bears on your own work.
