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Drones, 2022 Novel electric aircraft designs coupled with intense efforts from academia, government and industry led to a paradigm shift in urban transportation by introducing UAM.
Lukas Preis, Karolin Schweiger
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Drones, 2023 This study examines the impact of wind/gust speed conditions on airside traffic flows at vertiports in the context of on-demand urban air mobility based on the Vertidrome Airside Level of Service Framework.
Franz Knabe +2 more
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UAM Vertiport Network Design Considering Connectivity
SystemsUrban Air Mobility (UAM) is envisioned to revolutionize urban transportation by improving traffic efficiency and mitigating surface-level congestion. One of the fundamental challenges in implementing UAM systems lies in the optimal siting of vertiports ...
Wentao Zhang, Taesung Hwang
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A Vertiport Design Heuristic to Ensure Efficient Ground Operations for Urban Air Mobility
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2022 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.
Lukas Preis
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Vertidrome Airside Level of Service: Performance-Based Evaluation of Vertiport Airside Operations
Drones, 2023 This paper presents the Vertidrome Airside Level of Service (VALoS) framework, a novel performance metric designed to evaluate airside traffic flow operations at vertidromes in the context of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). As the UAM industry rapidly evolves,
Franz Knabe, Karolin Schweiger
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Public Opinion Concerning the Siting of Vertiports
International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 2023 This study sought a better understanding of public opinion about the siting of vertiports to support Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). An online survey was used to collect the necessary data.
David C. Ison
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Throughput and Capacity Analysis of a Vertiport with Taxing and Parking Levels
AerospaceAmidst the increasing aerial traffic and road traffic congestion, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a new mode of aerial transport offering less travel time and ease of portability. A critical factor in reducing travel time is the emerging electric
Teemu Joonas Lieb +1 more
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Vertiport Infrastructure Location Optimization for Equitable Access to Urban Air Mobility
InfrastructuresUrban air mobility (UAM) has recently emerged as a promising new transportation mode, with various potential use cases. Facility location problems are well studied and of significant importance for various transportation modes.
Hani Mahmassani
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Applied Sciences, 2022 In this paper, we introduce a new formulation of the multivehicle point-to-point network problem to be utilised in urban air mobility (UAM) vertiport-to-vertiport network operations. Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) and their variants have previously been
Zin Win Thu +7 more
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