Preliminary Considerations for ODM Air Traffic Management based on Analysis of Commuter Passenger Demand and Travel Patterns for the Silicon Valley Region of California

Syed, Nida; Rye, Maria; Ade, Maninder; Trani, Antonio; Hinze, Nick; Swingle, Howard; Smith, Jeremy C.; Dollyhigh, Sam; Marien, Ty V.

doi:10.2514/6.2017-3082

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“…Average income is the average value of the total income of the population within a specific sector. However, several different revenue level formats were used in the studies to determine the location of the vertiport, for example, Syed et al [13] Use the number of family members whose income exceeds a certain standard value as a proxy for the degree of family wealth.…”

Section: Average Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

Initial Research on The Vertiport for The Urban Air Mobility

Li¹,

Yang²,

Li³

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information, Control and Automation, ICICA 2022, December 2-4, 2022, Chongqi

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The eVTOL (electricic Vertical Take-off and Landing) aircraft provides an important guarantee for the realization of the UAM (Urban Air Mobility) system. The reasonable setting and construction of the eVTOL ground infrastructure usually play important roles to operate UAM system safely, efficiently and economically. This study introduces the main composition, types and factors influencing eVTOL ground infrastructure placement, according to the setting of traditional helipads, vertiport should be set up with Touchdown and Liftoff (TLOF), Final Approach and Takeoff (FATO) and Safety Area (SA), the ground infrastructure placement were affected by the factors such as the population density, the average income, the commercial centers, tourist attractions, the large transportation hub and extreme commuting, then the main function will be defined based on the scale of the vertiport. The construction and design of the eVTOL ground infrastructure is a complex and systematic work that involves multiple factors and it is also one of the important issues that need to be resolved urgently.

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Section: Average Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

Initial Research on The Vertiport for The Urban Air Mobility

Li¹,

Yang²,

Li³

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information, Control and Automation, ICICA 2022, December 2-4, 2022, Chongqi

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“…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 ). Lim and Hwang ( 22 ) and Syed et al ( 23 ) also used k -means clustering in Seoul and Washington D.C., respectively. Both studies found that the location of vertiports is more important than the number of vertiports.…”

Section: Vertiport Siting and Network Designmentioning

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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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“…For UAM, the Elevate white paper [2] assumes 60 seconds per takeoff and 75 seconds per landing for an average operational of 67.5 seconds per operation and 53 operations per hour per vertipad. Syed, et al [4] use estimates of arrival and departure lengths and speeds and arrive at an estimate of 45 operations per hour. For the purposes of this paper, a theoretical maximum of 50 operations per hour (takeoff or landing) is used in the analysis.…”

Section: Vertipad Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many of publically available assessments of this concept to date have focused on the operations of individual vehicles such as done in reference 1 or predictions of total, travel demand created by individual vehicle attributes (e.g. trip speed and cost) if they can be realized, en masse such as done in reference [4]. Relatively little analysis or even discussion has centered around the feasibility and requirements of an airspace system that can facilitate sufficient UAM operations for it to result in a transportation system with enough capacity to be available, to "meaningful" numbers of travelers as they move around a metropolitan area.…”

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Exploratory Analysis of the Airspace Throughput and Sensitivities of an Urban Air Mobility System

Goodrich

Barmore

2018

2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

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The use of small, vertical-takeoff and landing aircraft to provide efficient, high-speed, ondemand passenger transportation within a metropolitan area (e.g. intra-city transportation) is a topic of increasing interest and investment within the aerospace and transportation communities. Preliminary, mostly vehicle-level analysis suggests that passenger-carrying "Urban Air Mobility" has the potential to provide meaningful door-to-door trip time savings compared to identical trips taken solely by automobile, even for relatively short trips of a few tens of miles. Subsequent analysis has shown that if such trips can be conducted at costs competitive with ground transportation, the demand for such flight operations, not surprisingly, becomes unprecedented by historical airspace operations counts, raising fundamental questions regarding feasibility, practicality, capacity and basic system attributes such as separation criteria. In this paper, we conduct a preliminary assessment of vertipad requirements and en route separation minima relative to the feasibility of large-scale urban aviation operations. This analysis is acknowledged as being far from comprehensive and is intended to help define the initial boundaries of an airspace system compatible with enabling high-volume operations.

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Preliminary Considerations for ODM Air Traffic Management based on Analysis of Commuter Passenger Demand and Travel Patterns for the Silicon Valley Region of California

Cited by 21 publications

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Initial Research on The Vertiport for The Urban Air Mobility

Initial Research on The Vertiport for The Urban Air Mobility

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

Exploratory Analysis of the Airspace Throughput and Sensitivities of an Urban Air Mobility System

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