Title: Oper­a­tional Strate­gies for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty and 4D Sys­tem Fun­da­men­tal Dia­grams
Speak­er: Hani Mah­mas­sani
Abstract: We take urban mobil­i­ty to the next lev­el by con­sid­er­ing shared mobil­i­ty ser­vices offered through auto­mat­ed elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) vehi­cles (“fly­ing taxis”), enabled by new gen­er­a­tion of eVTOL air­craft. We present var­i­ous con­cepts for ser­vice oper­a­tions at urban/regional lev­els, along with algo­rithms adapt­ed for the real-time oper­a­tion of shared air mobil­i­ty fleets. We also exam­ine the con­gesta­bil­i­ty of urban air space through a micro­scop­ic sim­u­la­tion and illus­trate the emer­gence of sys­tem fun­da­men­tal dia­gram (for prop­er­ly defined aver­ages tak­en over four-dimen­sion­al space) com­pa­ra­ble in shape to urban road traf­fic networks.