AMI-AirShuttle
Concept for airport integration of urban air mobility solutions - funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy
Duration: January 2022 - December 2024
The Air Mobility Initiative (AMI) Bayern is a close cooperation between industry, business and science to develop a holistic, manufacturer-neutral solution for the planning, development and operation of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) at airports. In this project, the necessary requirements, procedures and digital solutions for the integration of air cabs - electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), often also called Urban Air Mobility (UAM) - into the infrastructure at conventional commercial airports are analyzed and evaluated. The Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering specifically undertakes the investigation of the following aspects:
- Investigating and quantifying the potential of Urban Air Mobility (air cabs) in the context of transport mode choices to and from Munich Airport
- Carrying out transport simulations to predict potential UAM demand to and from Munich Airport
- Presenting the basis of comparison of ground-based transport for noise and emissions analyses
The project is a consortium within the framework of the Bavarian Aviation Research Program, consisting of a total of ten partners from the fields of science, business, and public sector.
For information about the project: www.airmobilityinitiative.com
Selected previous work
For this purpose, a lot of preliminary work has already been done at the chair, for example in the context of a completed project OBUAM, through which the tools and experience for the acquisition of transport mode choice (Stated Preference) and its quantification (e.g. Apollo for the statistical programming language R) and for transport simulations with UAM (e.g. MATSim-UAM) are available. Diverse sources for these backgrounds can be found, for example, in theses such as:
- Rothfeld, R., Balac, M., Ploetner, K.O. and Antoniou, C., 2018. Agent-based simulation of urban air mobility. In 2018 Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference (p. 3891).
- Rothfeld, R.L., 2021. Agent-based Modelling and Simulation of Urban Air Mobility Operation (Doctoral dissertation, Technische Universität München).
- Rothfeld, R., Fu, M., Balać, M. and Antoniou, C., 2021. Potential urban air mobility travel time savings: An exploratory analysis of munich, paris, and san francisco. Sustainability, 13(4), p.2217.
- Rothfeld, R., Straubinger, A., Fu, M., Al Haddad, C. and Antoniou, C., 2020. Urban air mobility. In Demand for Emerging Transportation Systems (pp. 267-284). Elsevier.
- Al Haddad, C., Chaniotakis, E., Straubinger, A., Plötner, K. and Antoniou, C., 2020. Factors affecting the adoption and use of urban air mobility. Transportation research part A: policy and practice, 132, pp.696-712.
- Al Haddad, C., Fu, M., Straubinger, A., Plötner, K. and Antoniou, C., 2020. Choosing Suitable Indicators for the Assessment of urban air mobility: A case study of upper bavaria, germany. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 20(4), pp.214-232.
- Al Haddad, C., 2018. Identifying the factors affecting the use and adoption of urban air mobility.
- Ploetner, K.O., Al Haddad, C., Antoniou, C., Frank, F., Fu, M., Kabel, S., Llorca, C., Moeckel, R., Moreno, A.T., Pukhova, A. and Rothfeld, R., 2020. Long-term application potential of urban air mobility complementing public transport: an upper Bavaria example. CEAS aeronautical journal, 11(4), pp.991-1007.
- Balac, M., Rothfeld, R.L. and Hörl, S., 2019, October. The prospects of on-demand urban air mobility in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) (pp. 906-913). IEEE.
- Desai, K., Al Haddad, C. and Antoniou, C., 2021. Roadmap to early implementation of passenger air mobility: Findings from a delphi study. Sustainability, 13(19), p.10612.
- Straubinger, A., Kluge, U., Fu, M., Al Haddad, C., Ploetner, K.O. and Antoniou, C., 2020. Identifying demand and acceptance drivers for user friendly urban air mobility introduction. In Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe 2 (pp. 117-134). Springer, Cham.
- Fu, M., Rothfeld, R. and Antoniou, C., 2019. Exploring preferences for transportation modes in an urban air mobility environment: Munich case study. Transportation Research Record, 2673(10), pp.427-442.
Key publications
- Tao Guo, Hao Wu, Constantinos Antoniou: Assessment of the Economic Impact of UAM Siting through Enhancements in Travel Time Efficiency and Accessibility. The 2024 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, 2023
- Hao Wu, Tao Guo, Qing-Long Lu, Danyue Zhi, Constantinos Antoniou: Emission-aware two-stage stochastic optimization framework for UAM station allocation. The 26th Euro Working Group on Transportation Conference (EWGT 2024), 2024
- Hao Wu, Dayue Zhi, Biao Yin, Cheng Lyu, Constantinos Antoniou: Evidence-based Policy Impact Evaluation Framework for Implementing Green Transport Policies. The 26th Euro Working Group on Transportation Conference (EWGT 2024), 2024
- Yuxuan Sun, Hao Wu, Filippos Adamidis, Constantinos Antoniou: Exploring passengers' preferences for sustainable UAM-pooling services. The 12th International Forum on Shipping, Ports, and Airports (IFSPA 2024), 2024
Contact person:
Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE)
Prof. Dr. Constantinos Antoniou, M.Sc. Hao Wu, M.Sc. Filippos Adamidis