Design and Analysis of Corridors for UAM Operations

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Design and Analysis of Corridors for UAM Operations

Savvy Verma / Victoria Dulchinos / Robert (Dan)Wood / Amir Farrahi / Richard Mogford / Megan Shyr / Rania Wageh Ghatas

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is predicted to provide alternate modes of transportation for cargo and passengers in the urban areas. Integration of UAM operations into the National Airspace System is a challenge especially around large airport. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) UAM Concept of Operations (ConOps) suggests new airspace structures for UAM operations such as corridors where FAA air traffic control (ATC) will not be expected to provide services. This paper presents a design for corridors in the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) area that attempts to minimize air traffic controller interactions with UAM pilots and operators. The corridor and vertiports are then analyzed with respect to Class B separation criteria and wake advisory criteria. The results show that for the corridors designed for the DFW area and presented in this research, in some cases Class B separation criteria are not available between UAM corridors and legacy traffic due to the geometry of the airport. It shows that wake advisory criteria were not met for some segments in North Flow traffic but were generally met in South Flow. This means that some corridor segments at DFW airport will not be available for a given airport flow and may need new placements, which need further investigation.

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Title :

Design and Analysis of Corridors for UAM Operations

Contributors:

Savvy Verma (author) / Victoria Dulchinos (author) / Robert (Dan)Wood (author) / Amir Farrahi (author) / Richard Mogford (author) / Megan Shyr (author) / Rania Wageh Ghatas (author)

Conference:

DASC 41st Digital Avionics Systems Conference ; 2022 ; Portsmouth, VA, US

Type of media :

Conference paper

Type of material :

No indication

Language :

English

Keywords :

Airspace structure , Corridors , Advanced Air Mobility , Urban Air Mobility , UAM , Air Transportation And Safety , AAM