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RAFT IN THE AIR SP A CE THE CHALLENGE S OF A UTOMATION LFV’s research and innovation unit runs two UTM projects together with Linköping University; UTM 50 and UTM OK. UTM stands for Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management. UTM 50 aims to visualize future unmanned air traffic and from there study air traffic management, regulation and services. This is to establish the foundations for monitoring services and for a safe airspace. UTM OK is a research project aimed at the issue of airspace capacity. The project will develop basic concepts for route planning for drones, i.e., algorithms in relation to the needed infrastructure for the system to function in practice, and to design mathematical models and algorithms to estimate the amount of traffic that can safely be accommodated. UTM OK is the basis for an automated route planning system for allocating and monitoring airspace utilisation. A challenge with automation has long been that humans have an impaired ability to understand critical situations as they occur (situations caused by automation), and that the operator also has difficulty understanding what the automated system’s situation assessment (e.g. warnings) or proposals for action are based on. The desired new interfaces should give people the opportunity to understand the causes of situations that have arisen and the opportunity to retake control. By the term "reskilling”, we generally mean the ability to relearn when new systems with a higher degree of automation are introduced, and specifically to enhance learning about how automation works. It may be entirely new automation or automation that has been updated so that it works in a new and – to the operator – unexpected way. The aim of the research is to develop visualisation techniques for creating skills-enhancing systems and ways they can be integrated into automated real-time systems. The project started in 2016 and runs until 2021. It is a joint project with Linköping University, the Swedish Maritime Administration and the Swedish Transport Administration. 39