What is it about?
There are major advantages to integrating UAM operations with the existing airport terminals, but that means integrating the flight paths of UAM-type eVTOL vehicles with current commercial airline vehicles. This paper explores modeling techniques which estimate potential flight paths for the new entrants (eVTOL UAM) that meet certain constraints.
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Why is it important?
Commercial airports are highly regulated environments with many inter-related operational constraints. Planning for integration of new entrants into the terminal airspace is critical for driving the changes needed for a successful transition to operations that include a much greater diversity of flight characteristics.
Perspectives
The conflict between the airside requirements and the passenger experience inside the terminal is just one aspect that is driving the aviation community to find an acceptable balance between massive disruption of existing commercial airline operations and the new upstarts, which bring their own set of operational requirements and restrictions to the table. This power struggle may ultimately get decided by economic factors, but the best estimates for the future indicate some level of co-operation at existing airports, using existing airfield layouts. Hence the need to model possible flight scenarios.
Bruce Normann
Stevens Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: A Model for the Integration of UAM operations in and near Terminal Areas, June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2020-2864.
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