A Traffic Demand Analysis Method for Urban Air Mobility

Bulusu, Vishwanath; Onat, Emin Burak; Sengupta, Raja; Yedavalli, Pavan; Macfarlane, Jane

doi:10.1109/tits.2021.3052229

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“…The use of "uncapacitated" facilities makes sure that individual vertiports are not causing any operational bottlenecks during analysis and, therefore, are able to serve unlimited demand (see e.g., [81]). Instead, "capacitated" vertiports only serve limited demand (see e.g., [81,83]).…”

Section: Vertiport Network Based On Commuting Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the U.S areas San Francisco Bay area, and Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, Dallas-Fort Worth and Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, the UAM market potential was investigated considering a multi-modal transportation network in which UAM provides single legs of a commuting trip [83,84], respectively. Further, ref.…”

Section: Vertiport Network Based On Commuting Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to reflect different time saving requirements and to develop resulting vertiport performance constraints, ref. [83] proposes to cluster commuting travellers into long distance commuters and short distance commuters. For long distance commuters a time saving of 25%, and at least 50% for short distance commuters is required due to their different value of time in order to switch to the UAM mode.…”

Section: Vertiport Network Based On Commuting Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Transfer times of 5, 10 and 15 min and varying numbers of vertiports (1 to 30) are considered for the San Francisco Bay area (U.S.) by [83]. The direct haversine between the origin and destination of each trip is computed and compared to the travel time on ground based on different ground traffic congestion levels extracted from the Mobiliti simulation by [87] and Google Maps' API.…”

Section: Vertiport Network Based On Commuting Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Air Mobility: Systematic Review of Scientific Publications and Regulations for Vertiport Design and Operations

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2022

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Novel electric aircraft designs coupled with intense efforts from academia, government and industry led to a paradigm shift in urban transportation by introducing UAM. While UAM promises to introduce a new mode of transport, it depends on ground infrastructure to operate safely and efficiently in a highly constrained urban environment. Due to its novelty, the research of UAM ground infrastructure is widely scattered. Therefore, this paper selects, categorizes and summarizes existing literature in a systematic fashion and strives to support the harmonization process of contributions made by industry, research and regulatory authorities. Through a document term matrix approach, we identified 49 Scopus-listed scientific publications (2016–2021) addressing the topic of UAM ground infrastructure with respect to airspace operation followed by design, location and network, throughput and capacity, ground operations, cost, safety, regulation, weather and lastly noise and security. Last listed topics from cost onwards appear to be substantially under-represented, but will be influencing current developments and challenges. This manuscript further presents regulatory considerations (Europe, U.S., international) and introduces additional noteworthy scientific publications and industry contributions. Initial uncertainties in naming UAM ground infrastructure seem to be overcome; vertiport is now being predominantly used when speaking about vertical take-off and landing UAM operations.

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Section: Vertiport Network Based On Commuting Trendsmentioning

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Section: Vertiport Network Based On Commuting Trendsmentioning

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Section: Vertiport Network Based On Commuting Trendsmentioning

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“…However, because the study uses proprietary data from one service provider, the results are limited. Bulusu et al ( 20 ) also used a k -means clustering model to explore the San Francisco Bay Area. However, demand data for the study were not comprehensive for the entire metropolitan region, an important consideration to understand the broader impacts across the transportation network ( 21 ).…”

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Planning Land Use Constrained Networks of Urban Air Mobility Infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area

Yedavalli

Cohen

2022

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Urban air mobility (UAM) is a concept envisioning safe, sustainable, affordable, and accessible air transportation for passenger mobility, cargo delivery, and emergency management within or traversing a metropolitan area. While the deployment of UAM will require a network of infrastructure (i.e., vertiports), this emerging concept could face a variety of barriers, such as local opposition, infrastructure costs, and multimodal integration. This paper presents a novel simulation methodology using k-medians clustering and sensitivity analysis to model potential vertiport locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. When controlling for land use characteristics (i.e., parcel size and zoning), the simulation and sensitivity analysis finds that as the number of vertiports increases, the average travel times of trips taken by UAM decrease. The analysis also identifies an inflection point of the number of vertiports at which UAM becomes competitive with driving. The analysis concludes that with respect to size, parcels of 2 acres or smaller are the only locations that allow UAM travel times to be competitive with driving. The paper concludes that neither quantitative nor qualitative factors alone will be sufficient to determine the feasibility of vertiports and overcome community concerns associated with vertiport siting. Metropolitan planning organizations, local governments, and other public agencies will likely need to augment technical analysis with robust stakeholder and community engagement throughout the planning process.

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The New Paradigm of Safe and Sustainable Transportation: Urban Air Mobility

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Pan

2024

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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A Traffic Demand Analysis Method for Urban Air Mobility

Cited by 42 publications

References 9 publications

Urban Air Mobility: Systematic Review of Scientific Publications and Regulations for Vertiport Design and Operations

Urban Air Mobility: Systematic Review of Scientific Publications and Regulations for Vertiport Design and Operations

Planning Land Use Constrained Networks of Urban Air Mobility Infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area

The New Paradigm of Safe and Sustainable Transportation: Urban Air Mobility

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