Who is ZGA?

ZeroG-Autobahn is a Masters Degree project with the first versions presented to the public in 2000 by Christian Frey.
I work as an information and interface designer in the fields of animation and screen design, I started zeroG-Autobahn as a research project in 1999 at the University of Arts at Berlin, Germany, Department of Digital Media.

Throughout the research phase the basic question arose at what level I was going to approach the hole project. I had to decide between proposing a serious concept or building an experimental platform with several solutions based on various mobility concepts.
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As NASA promised in 1999, "in the not-too-distant future, there may be a virtual 'highway in the sky', as the average person could take to the sky in small, safe and affordable, easy-to-fly personal aircrafts, traveling four times the speed of today's cars."

As the project attracted increasing attention, and several institutions (e.g. US Air Force) showed interest in the idea, I decided to develop a feasible and manageable air traffic solution, that makes flying easy for everyone.

Designing a 3D-Motion Graphical User Interface

Unlike NASA's SATS program (Small Aircraft Transportation System), which aims to connect cities with small easy-to-fly aircrafts, I concentrated on creating systems for urban environments.
This required translating 2D - traffic into 3D and emphasizes the new opportunities and restrictions that come along with the new 3rd spatial axis. I thus built virtual traffic grids and junctions sytems, sorted responsibilities, and set up traffic rules.

Based on the ZGA system, I designed a 3D-Motion Graphical User Interface that communicates the entire system.