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Main Authors: Alvarez, Luis E., Jones, James, Bryan, Austin, Weinert, Andrew
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01316
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author Alvarez, Luis E.
Jones, James
Bryan, Austin
Weinert, Andrew
author_facet Alvarez, Luis E.
Jones, James
Bryan, Austin
Weinert, Andrew
contents Advanced Air Mobility encompasses emerging aviation technologies that transport people and cargo between local, regional, or urban locations that are currently underserved by aviation and other transportation modalities. The disruptive nature of these technologies has pushed industry, academia, and governments to devote significant investments to understand their impact on airspace risk, operational procedures, and passengers. A flexible framework was designed to assess the operational viability of these technologies and the sensitivity to a variety of assumptions. This framework is used to simulate air taxi traffic within New York City by replacing a portion of the city's taxi requests with trips taken with electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles and evaluate the sensitivity of passenger trip time to a variety of system wide assumptions. In particular, the paper focuses on the impact of the passenger capacity, landing site vehicle capacity, and fleet size. The operation density is then compared with the current air traffic to assess operation constraints that will challenge the network UAM operations.
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spellingShingle Demand and Capacity Modeling for Advanced Air Mobility
Alvarez, Luis E.
Jones, James
Bryan, Austin
Weinert, Andrew
Physics and Society
Advanced Air Mobility encompasses emerging aviation technologies that transport people and cargo between local, regional, or urban locations that are currently underserved by aviation and other transportation modalities. The disruptive nature of these technologies has pushed industry, academia, and governments to devote significant investments to understand their impact on airspace risk, operational procedures, and passengers. A flexible framework was designed to assess the operational viability of these technologies and the sensitivity to a variety of assumptions. This framework is used to simulate air taxi traffic within New York City by replacing a portion of the city's taxi requests with trips taken with electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles and evaluate the sensitivity of passenger trip time to a variety of system wide assumptions. In particular, the paper focuses on the impact of the passenger capacity, landing site vehicle capacity, and fleet size. The operation density is then compared with the current air traffic to assess operation constraints that will challenge the network UAM operations.
title Demand and Capacity Modeling for Advanced Air Mobility
topic Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01316