Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility
Abstract The increased use of drones and air-taxis is expected to make airspace resources more congested, necessitating the use of unmanned aircraft systems traffic management (UTM) initiatives to ensure safe and efficient operations. Typically, strategic UTM involves solving an optim...
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| author | Chin, Christopher Gopalakrishnan, Karthik Balakrishnan, Hamsa Egorov, Maxim Evans, Antony |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Chin, Christopher Gopalakrishnan, Karthik Balakrishnan, Hamsa Egorov, Maxim Evans, Antony |
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The increased use of drones and air-taxis is expected to make airspace resources more congested, necessitating the use of unmanned aircraft systems traffic management (UTM) initiatives to ensure safe and efficient operations. Typically, strategic UTM involves solving an optimization problem that ensures that proposed flight schedules do not exceed airspace and vertiport capacities. However, the dynamic nature and low lead-time of applications such as on-demand delivery and urban air mobility traffic may reduce the efficiency and fairness of strategic UTM. We first discuss the adaptation of three fairness metrics into a traffic flow management problem (TFMP). Then, with computational simulations of a drone package delivery scenario in Toulouse, we evaluate trade-offs in the TFMP between efficiency and fairness, as well as between different fairness metrics. We show that system fairness can be improved with little loss in efficiency. We also consider two approaches to the integrated scheduling of both high lead-time flights (i.e., flights with a schedule known in advance) and low lead-time flights in a rolling horizon optimization framework. We compare the performance of both approaches for different horizon lengths and under varying proportions of high and low lead-time flights. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1426002023-02-15T21:36:22Z Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility Chin, Christopher Gopalakrishnan, Karthik Balakrishnan, Hamsa Egorov, Maxim Evans, Antony Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Abstract The increased use of drones and air-taxis is expected to make airspace resources more congested, necessitating the use of unmanned aircraft systems traffic management (UTM) initiatives to ensure safe and efficient operations. Typically, strategic UTM involves solving an optimization problem that ensures that proposed flight schedules do not exceed airspace and vertiport capacities. However, the dynamic nature and low lead-time of applications such as on-demand delivery and urban air mobility traffic may reduce the efficiency and fairness of strategic UTM. We first discuss the adaptation of three fairness metrics into a traffic flow management problem (TFMP). Then, with computational simulations of a drone package delivery scenario in Toulouse, we evaluate trade-offs in the TFMP between efficiency and fairness, as well as between different fairness metrics. We show that system fairness can be improved with little loss in efficiency. We also consider two approaches to the integrated scheduling of both high lead-time flights (i.e., flights with a schedule known in advance) and low lead-time flights in a rolling horizon optimization framework. We compare the performance of both approaches for different horizon lengths and under varying proportions of high and low lead-time flights. 2022-05-19T12:20:13Z 2022-05-19T12:20:13Z 2021-10-23 2022-05-19T03:30:12Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142600 Chin, Christopher, Gopalakrishnan, Karthik, Balakrishnan, Hamsa, Egorov, Maxim and Evans, Antony. 2021. "Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility." en https://doi.org/10.1007/s13272-021-00553-3 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. application/pdf Springer Vienna Springer Vienna |
| spellingShingle | Chin, Christopher Gopalakrishnan, Karthik Balakrishnan, Hamsa Egorov, Maxim Evans, Antony Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility |
| title | Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility |
| title_full | Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility |
| title_fullStr | Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility |
| title_full_unstemmed | Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility |
| title_short | Efficient and fair traffic flow management for on-demand air mobility |
| title_sort | efficient and fair traffic flow management for on demand air mobility |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142600 |
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