Long-term application potential of urban air mobility complementing public transport: an upper Bavaria example

Ploetner, Kay O.; Haddad, Christelle Al; Antoniou, Constantinos; Frank, Filip; Fu, Mengying; Kabel, Stefanie; Llorca, Carlos; Moeckel, Rolf; Moreno, Ana Tsui; Pukhova, Alona; Rothfeld, Raoul; Shamiyeh, Michael; Straubinger, Anna; Wagner, Harry; Zhang, Q.

doi:10.1007/s13272-020-00468-5

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“…This results in an estimated passenger transportation mode changeover rate of approximately 5%. Although the modal split including air taxi services will highly vary for different local transportation systems, a 5% share of trips by air taxi services lies within a reasonable order of magnitude, compared with estimates of other literature [3,9]. As the passenger volume of Cologne Bonn Airport summed to 12 million passengers in 2019, this changeover rate would indicate an air taxi service demand of approximately 600,000 passengers per year.…”

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Determining infrastructure requirements for an air taxi service at Cologne Bonn Airport

Feldhoff

Roque

2021

CEAS Aeronaut J

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The worldwide increasing population density in major urban centres poses great challenges for transportation systems. Air taxi services could be a solution to this growing problem by bringing the existing transportation system to the three dimensional space. This paper analyzes the challenges and requirements of developing a vertiport intended for the use of air taxis at Cologne Bonn Airport. This research was conducted with the information available at the time of writing, for which a basis scenario is defined for the Cologne Bonn Airport where important aspects of an air taxi service are determined such as passenger demand and possible vehicles. The main aspects analysed were the requirements on the vertiport infrastructure and its location, as well as the requirements on passenger processing. For the defined basis scenario, results show that the preferential locations to develop a vertiport at Cologne Bonn Airport are the roof top levels of parking garages P2 and P3. Furthermore, it is shown that given the estimated passenger demand, a very high utilization factor of the defined infrastructure is to be expected. This paper provides a starting point for the development of an air taxi service at Cologne Bonn Airport. Further research is needed in key issues such as the financial aspects of an air taxi service, its integration into the current operating scenario of the Cologne Bonn Airport and the approval process for an air taxi service and the vertiport itself.

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Section: Regulatory Frameworkmentioning

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Determining infrastructure requirements for an air taxi service at Cologne Bonn Airport

Feldhoff

Roque

2021

CEAS Aeronaut J

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“…High prices, above or at the level of taxi prices, might be realistic at the beginning; yet, as e.g. Ploetner et al (2020) show, modal shares of UAM can then be expected to very low. With rather low modal shares of UAM the expected impacts on location choice and related markets is expected to be minor.…”

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“…Due to high travel speeds and high prices the long term impact of this future mode of transport is especially interesting. First, the combination of high prices and high travel speeds demand for a user group with a high willingness to pay for travel time savings (Al Haddad et al 2020;Straubinger et al 2020a;Fu et al 2019), making the assessment of welfare effects on different income groups relevant. Second, the massive increase in travel time could lead to a change in location behaviour of households (Rothfeld et al 2019b), especially when keeping the existing empirical evidence on rather constant commuting times in mind (Anas 2015).…”

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Will urban air mobility fly? The efficiency and distributional impacts of UAM in different urban spatial structures

2021

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Recent technological developments open up possibilities for introducing a vast number of novel mobility concepts in urban environments. One of these new concepts is urban air mobility (UAM). It makes use of passenger drones for on-demand transport in urban settings, promising high travel speeds for those willing and able to pay. This research aims to answer the question how benefits from UAM will be distributed, taking into account the spatial dimension and the differential impacts on low-and high-skilled households. We develop a framework that can more generally be used to assess the welfare impacts resulting from the introduction of novel transport modes. The development of an urban spatial computable general equilibrium model building on the polycentric modelling tradition developed by Anas and coauthors allows for an analysis of mutually dependent effects on the land, labour and product markets, triggered by changes on the transport market. Allowing for an endogenous spatial structure through the introduction of agglomeration effects and an amenity-based approach, the framework investigates the relevance of the initial spatial structure for the impact of the introduction of UAM. Incorporating different skill levels of households allows to assess location choice and travel behaviour for households with different characteristics. A numerical simulation of the model shows that the different initial spatial structures impose comparable welfare changes. Variations in UAM features like marginal cost, prices, land demand for infrastructure, vertical travel speed and access and egress times have a (much) more decisive impact on modal choice and welfare effects than the initial urban structure. Simulations show that considering households of different skill levels brings additional insights, as welfare effects of UAM introduction strongly differ between groups and sometimes even go in opposing directions.

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“…There is a substantial effect of the approved footprint on the feasibility of implementation. In addition, large vehicle footprints lead to reduced efficiency on the Verti-X as less aircraft can be dispatched simultaneously (Ploetner et al, 2020). To allow scaling, the Verti-X must be readily accessible to customers and have sufficient passenger and aircraft throughput.…”

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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

Salehi¹,

Wang²

2021

Proc. Des. Soc.

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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.

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Long-term application potential of urban air mobility complementing public transport: an upper Bavaria example

Cited by 86 publications

References 11 publications

Determining infrastructure requirements for an air taxi service at Cologne Bonn Airport

Determining infrastructure requirements for an air taxi service at Cologne Bonn Airport

Will urban air mobility fly? The efficiency and distributional impacts of UAM in different urban spatial structures

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

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