Impact of Airspace Restrictions on UAM Airport Shuttle Service Route Feasibility
Initial Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations are anticipated to include air-taxi services between airport terminals and city centers. UAM airport shuttle operations have the potential to improve the customer experience and provide airports with new revenue streams but risk interfering with current airport operations. In this paper, the authors develop a discrete, heuristics-based optimization framework to explore the impact of airspace constraints and the placement of vertiports in the airport terminal area on the feasibility of UAM shuttle operations. The framework is applied to the terminal areas of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Small-scale UAM operations were found to be feasible at all three airports with current terminal area procedures, particularly if UAM aircraft are classified as helicopters. Scaled-up operations were found to be most feasible at ATL due to the possibility of segregating UAM aircraft from commercial traffic, whereas scaled-up operations at LAX and DFW are expected to require the adoption of new technologies, procedures, and regulations.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AV095 Standing Committee on New Users of Shared Airspace.
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Authors:
- Kotwicz Herniczek, Mark T
- German, Brian J
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 101st Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2022-1-9 to 2022-1-13
- Date: 2022
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 25p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air taxi service; Airport access; Airspace (Law); Mobility; Routes; Shuttle service
- Identifier Terms: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport; Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Los Angeles International Airport
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01847990
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jun 6 2022 4:22PM