Commuter demand estimation and feasibility assessment for Urban Air Mobility in Northern California

Rimjha, Mihir; Hotle, Susan; Trani, Antonio; Hinze, Nicolas

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2021.03.020

Cited by 33 publications

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“…Focusing on urban trips, cars and taxis are expected to operate in competition with UAM. This finding is in line with the existing literature which supports that UAM might be a competitive mode to transit and commute with an increased level of trust and comfort [48], while another study [49] found that a range of 50 min car rides would compete with UAM. However, overall, the participants supported that intercity trains and buses, as well as urban public transport and sharing services, will interact complementarily.…”

Section: Integration With the Current Transport Systemsupporting

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A New Mobility Era: Stakeholders’ Insights regarding Urban Air Mobility

2022

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Urban Air Mobility (UAM) constitutes a future aerial mobility alternative, which concerns the use of electric and autonomous aerial vehicles for transporting people throughout a planned network of vertiports. To materialize UAM, several actors of the air and urban transport ecosystem play a vital role. This paper describes the insights gathered from 32 key stakeholders around the world to present and frame the key aspects for the future implementation of UAM. The participants include representatives from the UAM industry such as airports, airlines, aviation consulting companies, academia, and authorities. The data collection encompasses various key research areas, covering topics such as UAM strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks, requirements for implementation, concept integration in the existing transport system, specific use cases, business models, and end-user segments. The research aims at setting up the stakeholder scene and expanding the current literature for UAM by engaging key decision makers and experts towards shaping the new mobility era. The results demonstrate that ensuring certification standards for UAM fleets and updating the current legal and regulatory framework are the main prerequisites for UAM’s realization. In addition, the usage of UAM for transporting cargo or for air ambulance services are the most mature business models for the coming decade.

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Section: Integration With the Current Transport Systemsupporting

confidence: 91%

A New Mobility Era: Stakeholders’ Insights regarding Urban Air Mobility

2022

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“…Nevertheless, early business models must be anticipated to follow demand-driven approaches. Based on the reviewed studies, the target group usually contains a high share of younger, technophile males with higher education and income, living and frequently commuting individually in FUAs [11,37,59,60,64]. Consequently, satisfaction with the urban transportation system would only improve for this subgroup, while the majority of citizen will not feel considered.…”

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“…Studies attempting to estimate the price of pUAM suggest it to be below the perkilometre price of existing helicopter point-to-point services but also far above the price of traditional taxi services [36,37]. More precise and comparable examples have been found only for eVTOLs with the capacity for three passengers, including one pilot.…”

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“…The reachability of vertiports, e.g., in walking distance (a reasonable walking distance is quoted to be up to 2 miles/3.2 km [37]) presents a relevant factor for pUAM services to realise overall travel time savings compared to competing means of ground transportation [46]. However, the extent to which good reachability will be archived in complex urban environments is difficult to foresee.…”

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Social Sustainable Urban Air Mobility in Europe

Biehle

2022

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The first step to steer passenger Urban Air Mobility (pUAM) towards the necessity of sustainability is to understand its impact on our urban transportation systems. This research emphasises the social footprint of passenger drones in scheduled operation as an early business model in European Functional Urban Areas. The literature review is guided by the corresponding Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators (SUMI). The prospective impact which the introduction of pUAM has on the evaluation of European transportation systems regarding their affordability for the public, their inclusivity for mobility-impaired groups, their accessibility to commuters and the level of customer satisfaction is analysed. Furthermore, the impact of pUAM on the perceived quality of public urban space is examined. Results indicate the overall social footprint of passenger drones in European transport systems to be negative. Early market pUAM may lead to an unbalanced distribution of potential benefits, with services tailored to address only a limited number of citizens. Highlighting pathways for a societal benefiting technology, recommendations are provided for urban planning and city development.

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“…In contrast to [98], ref. [97] conducted a sensitivity analysis for several variables (e.g., arrival/departure service time at pad and stall) by applying a lognormal distribution in order to evaluate the impact on vertiport capacity and operational efficiency (for additional details see [99]).…”

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

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2022

Drones

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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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Commuter demand estimation and feasibility assessment for Urban Air Mobility in Northern California

Cited by 33 publications

References 14 publications

A New Mobility Era: Stakeholders’ Insights regarding Urban Air Mobility

A New Mobility Era: Stakeholders’ Insights regarding Urban Air Mobility

Social Sustainable Urban Air Mobility in Europe

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

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