There is growing interest in urban air mobility (UAM) as an alternative for passenger and cargo transport around metropolitan areas in a multimodal transportation system that leverages small, electric aircraft. Ridesharing has been proposed as a means of making UAM passenger trips more affordable and environmentally friendly. We present a UAM ridesharing model integrated into an existing computational framework for analyzing daily work commute trips within a metropolitan area. We leverage this model to estimate the potential demand for ridesharing-enabled UAM trips within six metropolitan areas across the United States: Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; New York City, NY; and Orlando, FL. We compare results for each metropolitan area with and without ridesharing. Results indicate that ridesharing enables at least an order of magnitude more UAM-preferring passengers than without ridesharing, though specifics vary across metropolitan areas and network sizes. Enabling ridesharing in UAM also considerably lowers the mean and mode value of time for passengers that select the UAM mode, indicating that ridesharing can help make UAM more economically accessible to a larger set of the population. An important caveat is that the UAM ridesharing model does not account for operational constraints, such as aerodrome capacity and aircraft availability, and relies on a perfect knowledge of passenger movements and mode preferences. This leads to high UAM ridesharing volumes that are unlikely to reflect real-world UAM operations and thus serves as an upper bound estimate.


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    Title :

    Exploring Ridesharing in Passenger Urban Air Mobility: A Comparative Analysis


    Contributors:
    D. A. DeLaurentis (author) / A. Edsel (author) / S. D. Biswas (author) / M. Kilbourne (author) / R. Gadre (author) / S. Vashi (author) / K. Mall (author) / W. A. Crossley (author) / M. D. Patterson (author) / B. E. Sells (author)

    Publication date :

    2024


    Size :

    42 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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