Approach Control Concepts and Optimal Vertiport Airspace Design for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Operation

Song, Kyowon; Yeo, Hwasoo; Moon, Jung-Ho

doi:10.1007/s42405-020-00345-9

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“…Ref. [178] identified "lacks" like the absence of an optimal airspace design for ATM and the neglect of a PAV capability of hovering while analyzing the approach of [175,177]. Additionally, ref.…”

Section: Tactical Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, ref. [178] highlights the concern "for safety in the surrounding urban areas due to unnecessary flights around the vertiport". Therefore [178] proposes not only dimensions of holding rings but also distinct holding points where PAV can hover in order to reduce unnecessary flights around the vertiport.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[178] highlights the concern "for safety in the surrounding urban areas due to unnecessary flights around the vertiport". Therefore [178] proposes not only dimensions of holding rings but also distinct holding points where PAV can hover in order to reduce unnecessary flights around the vertiport. Two different sequencing concepts for inward movement are developed: Sequence-Based Approach (SBA) and Branch Queuing Approach (BQA).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It creates a safer operating environment but neglects the landing sequence and therefore describes a more rigid and less flexible approach. For specific ring configuration and dimensions please refer to [178].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, a third sequencing approach was analyzed by [179] by adding moving circles to the SBA approach (SBAM). After analyzing and comparing on-time performance and loss of separation, resulted into a non-favorable approach compared to SBAM and BQA of [178].…”

Section: Tactical Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Integrating vertidrome management tasks into U-space

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U-space as defined by the European Commission is a set of new services relying on a high level of digitalization and automation of functions and specific procedures, designed to provide safe, efficient, and secure access to airspace for large numbers of unmanned aircraft, operating automatically and even beyond visual line of sight. This kind of concepts of operations (ConOps) of airspace integration for drones and air taxis are also called UTM (unmanned aircraft system traffic management) systems, being U-space the UTM ConOps agreed for Europe. U-space services are under development but commercially not available yet. For demonstration purposes, in the project HorizonUAM, a central U-space cloud service is simulated through a local messaging server using the protocol MQTT (message queuing telemetry transport). A prototypical vertidrome management tool was created to demonstrate the scheduling and sequencing of air taxi flights. The vertidrome manager is fully integrated within U-space and receives real-time information on flight plans, including requests for start and landing and emergency notifications. Additional information coming from other U-space services (e.g., weather information) can be accessed on request. The integration was demonstrated in a scaled flight test environment with multicopters (< 15 kg) representing passenger carrying air taxis.

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Vertiport Performance Analysis for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Operation in Seoul Metropolitan Area

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Kim

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Approach Control Concepts and Optimal Vertiport Airspace Design for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Operation

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 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

Integrating vertidrome management tasks into U-space

Vertiport Performance Analysis for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Operation in Seoul Metropolitan Area

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