Independent Sub-Granted Projects
In addition to the research being conducted by the team at the University of Birmingham, the Future Flight Social Insight programme also includes a number of other projects being undertaken at partner Universities across the UK.
These projects investigate other areas of the implementation of Future Flight technologies. These complementary projects are outlined below and serve to deliver outputs which will guide Future Flight technology implementation in the years ahead.
Co-creation of Future Flight Ecosystems and Enterprise (CoFFEE)
CoFFEE (Co-Creation of Future Flight Ecosystems and Enterprise) seeks to answer How the motivations of aerospace industry technologists, businesses, and social entrepreneurs influence the emergent FF business models, How innovations can be co-developed by technologists and local communities to achieve social and environmental sustainability, and How the emerging FF ecosystem can be nudged toward viable, safe, and sustainable business models which have low, or even positive, environmental impacts.
Governance And Trust in Emerging Systems (GATES): An interdisciplinary analysis of smart governance and UK drone delivery systems
GATES is a multi-disciplinary collaboration – law, management, public policy, etc. – between the Universities of Bath, Birmingham (Exeter) and, the West of England - with an initial empirical focus on the Open Skies Cornwall project. We aim to foreground how governance “enables or constrains” delivery drones - especially at scale. Our conceptualization of ‘Governance’ are the dynamic and multi-level interrelations between policy, planning, regulation and practice.
Embedding disabled passenger needs into the UK’s Advanced Air Mobility ecosystem.
The number of air travellers requiring special assistance is rapidly increasing and numerous accessibility issues for disabled people when travelling by air persist. The advent of a “new age of air travel” through Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) looks to radically change air travel in the UK. This project seeks to address these current persistent accessibility issues to embed disabled experience into the design and implementation of AAM.
Future Flight in Place
The Future Flight in Place research project uses interactive engagement tools developed using real-world data that locates future flight technologies in the places people live. Through interactive activities we introduce these emerging transport modes to a general audience and provide an opportunity for feedback on the form that potential future deployment might take.
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