Application of Munich Agile Concepts for Mbse as a Holistic and Systematic Design of Urban Air Mobility in Case of Design of Vertiports and Vertistops

Abstract

This paper will adopt the Munich Agile Concepts (MAGIC) on the design of Vertistops and Vertiports (Verti-X) for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Systems. Vertiports and Vertistops are single or multi-landing spaces for air taxis, which are electric-powered vertical take-off and landing (eVTOLs) aircraft. The target of this paper is to apply a holistic approach how to design so called Verti-X in a holistic and system of system method from the Requirement-, Function-. Architecture- and the Implementation phase. The MAGIC approach contains all of the requierd phases which are necessary to build up such a complex design of Verti-X. Therefore, based on the literature survey, we have determined the key components of the Verti-X design with a thorough requirement analysis. Then, we have followed the existed criteria and regulations to design a valid and verified Verti-X which fulfills all the requirement. Furthermore, the focus of this paper is to apply the first four phases of MAGIC regarding the requirement, function, architecture and the implementation of such Verti-X Design.

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

“…[32] uses the generic term TOLA, take-off and landing area, for ondemand mobility operations, which describes any location an aircraft, VTOL or STOL aircraft, can depart from or arrive at. Additional terms were found such as Verti-X [33], skyports [34] and airpark [35] if super STOL (SSTOL) and STOL aircraft are being considered to serve metropolitan areas and intra-city operations.…”

“…A very generic and systematic single vertiport design process was proposed by [33]. A six-step approach, including the systematic investigation of the topics requirements, functions, architecture, validation/implementation, testing and usage/application.…”