Urban air Mobility Regional Landing Site Feasibility and Fare Model Analysis in the Greater Northern California Region

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

doi:10.1109/icnsurv.2019.8735267

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“…The ideal vehicle candidates for air taxis have a carrying capacity of approximately four passengers, capable of reaching speeds of 160 miles/hour on average, and with a range of 100 miles on a full charge ( Holden and Goel, 2016 ; Duffy et al, 2017; Finger et al, 2018; Rajendran and Zack, 2019 ). While numerous companies are in the process of developing air taxi designs, the city infrastructure needed to support this sort of operation is regarded as a significant barrier to the entry of this emerging technology ( Reiche et al, 2019 ; Tarafdar et al, 2019 ). Studies, such as Rajendran (2020b) , Rajendran and Shulman (2020) , and Hasan (2019) , have named two types of infrastructures when considering the station locations, vertistop and vertiport.…”

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Recommendations for emerging air taxi network operations based on online review analysis of helicopter services

Rajendran

Pagel

2020

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The effects of traffic congestion are adverse, primarily including air pollution, commuter stress, an increase in vehicle operating costs, and accidents on road. In efforts to alleviate these problems in metropolitan cities, logistics companies plan to introduce a new Urban Air Mobility (UAM) service called air taxis. These are electric-powered vehicles that would be tested and operated in the forthcoming years by international transportation companies like Airbus, Uber, and Kitty Hawk. Since these flying taxis are an emerging mode of transportation, it is necessary to provide recommendations for initial design, implementation, and operation. This study proposes managerial insights for these upcoming UAM services by analyzing online customer reviews and conducting an internal assessment of helicopter operations. Helicopters are similar to air taxis in regards to their vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) operations, and therefore, customer reviews pertaining to the former can enable us to obtain insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the short-distance aviation service, in general. A four-stage sequential approach is used in this research, wherein online reviews are mined in Stage 1 , analyzed using bigram and trigram models in Stage 2 , 7S internal assessment is conducted for helicopter services in Stage 3 , and managerial recommendations for air taxis are proposed in Stage 4 . The insights obtained in this paper could assist any air taxi company in providing better customer service when they venture into the market.

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Recommendations for emerging air taxi network operations based on online review analysis of helicopter services

Rajendran

Pagel

2020

Heliyon

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“…The establishment of intracity operational infrastructure is one of the significant barriers for air taxi implementation (Sun et al, 2018;Vascik and Hansman, 2018;Reiche et al, 2019;Rath et al, 2019;Tarafdar et al, 2019). Many factors contribute to a location being chosen as a strategic operating station, such as the demand density, existence of adequate area for safe departure/landing, availability of space for charging stations, and easy accessibility (Percoco, 2010;Duval, 2013;Yang and Notteboom, 2016;Bozorgi-Amiri et al, 2017;Shahriari et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2019).…”

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Air taxi service for urban mobility: A critical review of recent developments, future challenges, and opportunities

Rajendran

Srinivas

2020

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Re

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Expected to operate in the imminent future, air taxi service (ATS) is an aerial on-demand transport for a single passenger or a small group of riders, which seeks to transform the method of everyday commute. This uncharted territory in the emerging transportation world is anticipated to enable consumers bypass traffic congestion in urban road networks. By adopting an electric vertical takeoff and landing concept (eVTOL), air taxis could be operational from skyports retrofitted on building rooftops, thus gaining advantage from an implementation standpoint. Motivated by the potential impact of ATS, this study provides a review of air taxi systems and associated operations. We first discuss the current developments in the ATS (demand prediction, air taxi network design, and vehicle configuration). Next, we anticipate potential future challenges of ATS from an operations management perspective, and review the existing literature that could be leveraged to tackle these problems (ride-matching, pricing strategies, vehicle maintenance scheduling, and pilot training and recruitment). Finally, we detail future research opportunities in the air taxi domain.

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“…Many papers focus on aircraft navigating between these vertiports over large areas on the order of the size of a metropolis area or between cities. Vitalle et al;German et al;; ; Verma et al;Tarafdar et al (2019); Cotton and Wing In this paper, we examine navigation through a city where UAS may need to fly between and around building in a dense urban environment such as New York City. While the regulatory environment may not be ready to approve operators openly flying small UAS or larger air-taxis near or between buildings anytime soon, we imagine that trusted emergency services operators (e.g., police, fire, disaster response) in urban areas may be granted special privileges to perform operations in dense urban environments like New York City.…”

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Urban air Mobility Regional Landing Site Feasibility and Fare Model Analysis in the Greater Northern California Region

Cited by 11 publications

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Recommendations for emerging air taxi network operations based on online review analysis of helicopter services

Recommendations for emerging air taxi network operations based on online review analysis of helicopter services

Air taxi service for urban mobility: A critical review of recent developments, future challenges, and opportunities

Applying FastMDP to complex aerospace-related problems

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