eVTOL Air Traffic Management System AirGrid Launches: Shenzhen Becomes World's First Low-Altitude Digitized City
Shenzhen government, Huawei, and EHang jointly launched AirGrid, a low-altitude traffic management system enabling real-time route planning, conflict detection, and automatic dispatch for eVTOL aircraft, managing over 5,000 daily flights.
On April 1, Shenzhen officially launched the AirGrid low-altitude traffic management system. The system uses Huawei's 5G-A communication infrastructure and edge computing nodes, with EHang handling aircraft-side protocol integration, enabling real-time management of eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft over the city. In its first week, the system managed an average of 5,200 daily flights across three scenarios: air taxis, logistics delivery, and medical emergencies.
AirGrid's core capability is "four-dimensional dynamic route planning" — adding a time dimension to three-dimensional spatial coordinates, calculating optimal routes for each aircraft and detecting potential conflicts in real-time. The system processes over 100,000 route requests per second with conflict detection response times under 50 milliseconds. Shenzhen's Transportation Bureau stated AirGrid will expand to Guangzhou and Dongguan within the year, establishing an integrated Greater Bay Area low-altitude transportation network.
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