But, as the Hopkins study notes, it will be the first time the agency provides the equivalent of air-traffic control in that airspace, which is 400 feet or below. But if we want to start using automated aircraft at scale, then the traffic management will have to be automated as well." "But if we want to start using automated aircraft at scale, then the traffic management will have to be automated as well." The study that Whitcomb and Watkins helmed piggybacks on work that Watkins' APL team has conducted for 10-plus years. The idea is to automate traffic management and to do it at a scale that we can barely even conceive of today."
