Aircraft and Fleet Sizing for Regional Air Mobility: College Town Case Studies
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| author | Park, Jung Ho Lee, Changyeob Cao, Shangqing Sengupta, Raja Hansen, Mark Yedavalli, Pavan |
| author_facet | Park, Jung Ho Lee, Changyeob Cao, Shangqing Sengupta, Raja Hansen, Mark Yedavalli, Pavan |
| contents | We examine how aircraft seat configuration interacts with daily operation in Regional Air Mobility by applying a joint supply-demand optimization framework that simultaneously determines market share, fare, and flight schedule. The framework integrates a binary logit discrete choice model into a task assignment formulation, capturing passengers' mode choice between Regional Air Mobility and driving across spatiotemporal origin-destination pairs. We evaluate three U.S. college town corridors under 4-, 6-, and 8-seat configurations across cost scales from 0.4 to 1.0 and fleet sizes from 12 to 30 aircraft. Profitability and throughput serve as primary performance metrics, and we analyze pricing power, operating cost, and revenue to explain performance variation across markets. We find that larger aircraft configurations and fleet sizes do not improve profitability universally. Larger aircraft are preferred where economies of scale are favorable and demand is sufficient and directionally balanced. The best configuration in these case studies is the 4-seat in imbalanced markets and the 6-seat in balanced or dense markets. |
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| spellingShingle | Aircraft and Fleet Sizing for Regional Air Mobility: College Town Case Studies Park, Jung Ho Lee, Changyeob Cao, Shangqing Sengupta, Raja Hansen, Mark Yedavalli, Pavan Systems and Control We examine how aircraft seat configuration interacts with daily operation in Regional Air Mobility by applying a joint supply-demand optimization framework that simultaneously determines market share, fare, and flight schedule. The framework integrates a binary logit discrete choice model into a task assignment formulation, capturing passengers' mode choice between Regional Air Mobility and driving across spatiotemporal origin-destination pairs. We evaluate three U.S. college town corridors under 4-, 6-, and 8-seat configurations across cost scales from 0.4 to 1.0 and fleet sizes from 12 to 30 aircraft. Profitability and throughput serve as primary performance metrics, and we analyze pricing power, operating cost, and revenue to explain performance variation across markets. We find that larger aircraft configurations and fleet sizes do not improve profitability universally. Larger aircraft are preferred where economies of scale are favorable and demand is sufficient and directionally balanced. The best configuration in these case studies is the 4-seat in imbalanced markets and the 6-seat in balanced or dense markets. |
| title | Aircraft and Fleet Sizing for Regional Air Mobility: College Town Case Studies |
| topic | Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25456 |