Project Summary
杏吧原创 University and the Aerospace Research Centre of Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) have been collaborating since 2020 to create Canada’s first domestic airspace model through the Canadian Airspace Modelling Project.听 This is only the second such model for any country, after MIT’s Lincoln Labs previously developed the .
The 杏吧原创 (Dr. Jeremy Lalibert茅) and NRC (Dr. Iryna Borshchova) partnership has resulted in numerous joint publications, software tools, models, and most importantly, a cohort of highly qualified personnel, from undergraduate to doctoral levels, trained in airspace modelling, data science, and related techniques.听 聽The 杏吧原创 team has also contributed tools and research results to the development of new international standards for detection and avoidance systems led by NRC.
This work is only possible with the ongoing support of the NRC, NSERC (through the CREATE UTILI and Discovery Grant/DND Supplement programs), and an expanded partnership with other key stakeholders including Concordia University ( and his team), Transport Canada, NAV Canada, and other industry and government organizations.
杏吧原创 is also an academic partner in the Alberta RTM Trials () led by Air Market.听 The iART Alliance is seeking to build a validated remote traffic management (RTM) system throughout Alberta that will enable the safe integration of routine BVLOS and VLOS low-altitude drone flights with existing air traffic.听 杏吧原创 is supporting the iART initiative through airspace risk assessments, air traffic modelling, and other activities to enable these future operations in Alberta and eventually across all of Canada.
Student Theses [September 2025]
- Chavda, N.听Design and Validation of Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight Drone Flight Corridors in Low-Level Airways, Masters Thesis, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 杏吧原创 University, 2025. (Lalibert茅 and Borschova)
- Kingma, S.听A Framework for Assessing Aircraft Detect and Avoid Systems Using Monte Carlo Simulations, Masters Thesis, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 杏吧原创 University, 2024. (Laliberte and Borshchova)聽
- Basawanal, A.听Development and Qualification of a Drone-Based Anemometry Platform, Masters Thesis, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 杏吧原创 University, 2024. (Laliberte and Borshchova)聽
- Krings TdJ.听Statistical Modeling of Air Traffic: Development of Methods and Application through a Canadian Case Study, Masters Thesis, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 杏吧原创 University, 2023. (Laliberte and Borshchova)聽
Research Publications [September 2025]
- Borshchova, I., Laliberte, J., Krings, T. (Version 1.0), 2023. [Computer software and technical reports]
- Chang J, Krings TdJ,听Ooi B, Borshchova I, Laliberte J. Quantitative Assessment of Urban Air Collision Risks.听Journal of Air Transportation.听2024.听
- Krings TdJ, Lalibert茅 J, Borshchova I, Ellis K. Development of methods for statistical modeling of air traffic demonstrated through a Winnipeg-area case study.听Drone Systems and Applications. 2023 (Winner 鈥� Best Student Paper AEAC 2023).听
- Li S,听Chang J,听Chavda N, Borshchova I, Laliberte J, Rodrigues L. Unmanned Aircraft Path Planning Using Air Traffic Density.听IEEE 18th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Reykjav铆k, Iceland, 2024.听
- Krings TdJ,听Chang J, Borshchova I, Laliberte J. Building a Model for Safe Integration of RPAS into Low-Level Canadian Airspace,听59th Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Kelowna, BC, 2024.