How will it work? Rather than myriad individual drones using onboard sensors to detect and avoid other crafts – an every-vehicle-for-itself safety system whose fallibility can be witnessed on roadways – Skyway will use a series of high-powered, ground-based sensors that will interface to centrally direct all overhead traffic. Read: Brexit schmexit: UK’s CAA to use Europe’s eVTOL certification standards Once assembled in about two years’ time, Skyway will connect the airspaces above Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry, and Rugby, and usher in beyond visual line of sight operation as the rule. The objective of the drone superhighway effort is to create a dedicated corridor whose automated technology can take over the heavy-lifting of piloting UAVs – and in doing so, remove the risks of individual operators crashing into one another, thus increasing the security, fluidity, and ease so that a far greater number of UK businesses will use the craft. According to reports, the plan will receive $14.2 million in government funding, from a total of $125 earmarked for integrating new aerial technology into the national airspace. It is joined by telecom company BT, which will provide connectivity through its mobile network, and several other startups whose activities can support the future UAV transport zone. The Skyway proposal to create a drone superhighway was initially tabled last March by a consortium headed by UK uncrewed traffic management specialist, Altitude Angel. The UK government announced Monday that it had given its awaited approval for the creation of a drone “ superhighway” spanning the Midlands to the country’s southeast – a 165-mile UAV corridor touted as the longest of its kind.
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