A Feasibility Study for the Development of Air Mobility Operations within an Airport City (Aerotropolis)

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Wang, Xi
Balchanos, Michael G.
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Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics was established in 1931, with a name change in 1962 to the School of Aerospace Engineering
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This study aims to create a simulation environment to study the feasibility of an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) system in an airport-centric infrastructure or aerotropolis area. The environment and the study are to confirm the effectiveness of the AAM system in terms of reducing traffic congestion for road networks and the reduction in carbon emissions for transportation methods. The traffic simulation will run a baseline simulation with the currently available mobility methods and an alternative simulation with a proposed small network with close distance flights AAM system of 9 vertiports. The traffic modeling utilizes Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) to accurately models the two cases and compare trip times of the two cases. The emission modeling models the emission of carbon per mile of travel for different mobility methods and use the miles traveled from the traffic simulation to calculate the emission. The conclusion was drawn based on the two comparisons of the change in travel time and the change in emission. A small AAM system servicing a small area with short flight legs is found to be effective in both decreasing trip times and decreasing emissions and is significantly more effective when the ground mobility network is congested and not accessible.
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2023-01
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