Urban air mobility (UAM): Airport shuttles or city-taxis?

In the last years, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has been receiving increasing attention and even if the first services are expected to be launched shortly, there is still uncertainty about which type of commercial services (e.g., airport shuttles or city-taxis) will be implemented at an early stage, as well as which price point will be perceived as affordable by travelers. Based on data collected through a large-scale survey campaign in the Milan metropolitan area (Italy), in this paper passengers value of travel time savings for different UAM services are estimated using advanced discrete choice modeling. Estimated mixed logit models allowed to comparatively analyze the differences between the two potential use cases, i.e., airport shuttle and city-taxi services. Results show a willingness to pay for UAM services from/to airports that is greater (in a range of 44%–57%) than for travelling within the metropolitan area, and greater (in a range of 31%–44%) for business travels than for other purposes, indicating that the most financially sustainable UAM services will potentially be available for airport-shuttles connections from/to central business districts.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.03.003
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X24000696
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/29485010
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Coppola, Pierluigi
  • De Fabiis, Francesco
  • 0000-0002-8685-5346
  • Silvestri, Fulvio
  • 0000-0002-5123-2050
• Publication Date: 2024-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 24-34
• Serial:
  • Transport Policy
  • Volume: 150
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0967-070X
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/096707X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air taxi service; Costs; Fares; Shuttle service; Stated preferences; Value of time
• Identifier Terms: Urban Air Mobility
• Geographic Terms: Milan (Italy)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01913216
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 27 2024 4:52PM