Investigation of E-Vtol Performance Parameters on the Characteristics of Civil Air-Taxi Network

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Kiani, Arash | 2021

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 54029 (45)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Aerospace Engineering
Advisor(s): Malaek, Mohammad Bagher
Abstract:
Nowadays more than half of the world’s population lived in urban areas. That proportion is set to rise to 67% by 2050. This will cause urban mobility with serious problems. The concept of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is proposed to avoid the problem to become a catastrophy. Due to environmental issues and also high operating costs, using copters as an air-taxi was not justifiable. As the technology in e-VTOL flourished, the desire of using of these vehicles in such a transportation system was increased. In this paper, besides previous investigations, the e-VTOL’s performance parameters’ influence on the characteristic of a civil air-taxi network is under investigation. In addition, this paper aims to examine the proportion of Number of Vertistops and Vertiports to achieve the optimized revenue from this transportation system by using simulink for modeling an e-VTOL and using Monte Carlo Method for dynamic simulation of the UAM operation
Keywords:
Dynamic Simulation ; Terminals ; Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VtOL) ; Urban Transportation Network ; Air-Taxi Network ; Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ; Vertistop

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