Simulation-based assessment of airside operations and airspace capacity at vertiports
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: To realise the concept of Urban Air Mobility, the development of a sufficient infrastructure for take-off and landing, commonly referred to as ‘vertiports’, is a key factor. Vertiport development will be strongly limited in urban environment. Therefore, vertiport operations and capacity have to be understood in order to provide efficient and adequate vertiport infrastructure. Vertiport operations depend on the vertiport surface design and the vertiport terminal airspace design. The investigation of the vertiport performance considering both surface and aerial subsystems is missing to date. This study presents a simulation-based approach to analyse the interdependencies of vertiport surface operations and vertiport airspace operations. We develop a vertiport terminal airspace design based on a literature review and adapt it to a specific vertiport topology and size (i.e. the arrangement and number of the components of a vertiport). The design is implemented in a simulation model using CAST Aircraft. We simulate different operational scenarios varying the traffic volume, distribution of interarrival times, and routing strategy.
Source: Transportation research procedia
Authors: Farina Biemann, Eva Wille
Institution: RWTH Aachen University
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405641837