Simulation of Individual Aircraft and Passenger Behaviour and Study of Impact on Vertiport Operations

Preis, Lukas; Cheng, Susan

doi:10.2514/6.2022-4074

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“…Another limitation worth mentioning is that we assumed uniform characteristics across all agents (e.g., all passengers have the same walking speed). While both passengers and vehicles will have varying characteristics in the real world, it was shown in a related study that this effect plays a negligible role [24].…”

Section: Limitations and Future Workmentioning

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A Vertiport Design Heuristic to Ensure Efficient Ground Operations for Urban Air Mobility

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Hornung

2022

Applied Sciences

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Urban Air Mobility is a novel concept of transportation with unknown market potential. Even in conservative estimates, thousands of operations could be expected on a single vertiport. This exceeds known heliport operations, which is the most comparable existing mode of transport—by far. Vertiport operations, in particular the dynamics on the airfield, are not well understood; in the following article, we want to address this research gap. By using means of agent-based simulation, the following design drivers were identified: peaks in demand, imbalance between arrivals and departures, pad operations and gate operations. We calculate a practical hourly capacity of 264 movements for our baseline scenario consisting of 4 pads, 12 gates and 20 stand. We are further able to shown that avoiding this peak and staying below a maximum imbalance between arrivals and departures of less than 33 ensures an average passenger delay of less than 3 min. Lastly, we present a parameter study varying the number of pads and gates, the length of approach/departure and boarding/de-boarding and the level of demand. The results of this study are aggregated into a graphical design heuristic displaying the interchangeability of the mentioned aspects.

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A Vertiport Design Heuristic to Ensure Efficient Ground Operations for Urban Air Mobility

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2022

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Estimating vertiport passenger throughput capacity for prominent eVTOL designs

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2023

CEAS Aeronaut J

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Urban Air Mobility has the potential to substantially reduce travel times in some cases of urban-related transportation. Travel time savings strongly depend on fast processing at vertiports, which presents a key challenge considering demand levels’ vertiports would experience when becoming an established mode of transport. This article sheds light on the passenger throughput vertiport airfields can manage and how the operations are sensitive to changes. One main contribution of this article is the introduction of hourly passenger throughput per area as a performance indicator that allows to compare vertiports of different sizes. VoloCity is studied as a reference vehicle and the resulting space requirement of the carefully specified baseline scenario is 188 square-meters per passenger per hour. A total of 13 prominent eVTOL designs are included in the study from which the current design space between maximum vehicle dimension and number of seats is deducted. The study shows that vehicles with a small maximum dimension yield the highest passenger throughput capacity. CityAirbus performs best (46.3 m2/PAX/h) with a diameter of 7.92 m and Archer Maker performs worst (221 m2/PAX/h) with a diameter of 12.2 m. How the performance indicators can be used as rules-of-thumb in the first-order estimations of vertiport throughput capacity or space requirement is described by means of illustrative examples. The insights presented in this paper might be useful for researches, vehicle developers, and municipalities alike.

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Development and Evaluation of a U-space Route Structure for the City of Frankfurt Connecting Airport and Trade Fair Via Fast-Time Simulation

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Schweiger

Karasek

et al. 2023

2023 Integrated Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS)

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Simulation of Individual Aircraft and Passenger Behaviour and Study of Impact on Vertiport Operations

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

A Vertiport Design Heuristic to Ensure Efficient Ground Operations for Urban Air Mobility

A Vertiport Design Heuristic to Ensure Efficient Ground Operations for Urban Air Mobility

Estimating vertiport passenger throughput capacity for prominent eVTOL designs

Development and Evaluation of a U-space Route Structure for the City of Frankfurt Connecting Airport and Trade Fair Via Fast-Time Simulation

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