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A Vertiport Design Heuristic to Ensure Efficient Ground Operations for Urban Air Mobility
Content Provider | MDPI |
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Author | Preis, Lukas Hornung, Mirko |
Copyright Year | 2022 |
Description | 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. |
Starting Page | 7260 |
e-ISSN | 20763417 |
DOI | 10.3390/app12147260 |
Journal | Applied Sciences |
Issue Number | 14 |
Volume Number | 12 |
Language | English |
Publisher | MDPI |
Publisher Date | 2022-07-19 |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | Applied Sciences Transportation Science and Technology Urban Air Mobility Vertiport Agent-based Simulation Design Heuristic Operational Delay Practical Capacity |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Article |