Sheth, Kapil

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1Urban Air Mobility (UAM)
Thoughts on Vertiports
Dr. Kapil Sheth
NASA Ames Research Center
Cascadia Urban Air Mobility Forum
Feb. 28, 2020
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20200001385 2020-03-28T19:17:00+00:00Z
2National Airspace System
(NAS)
Conventional Traffic, Weather, SUA/TFR, 
Dynamic Sectorization, TMIs
3Urban Air Mobility
• Research - viability, infrastructure, safety and convenience, 
scalability, traffic management, and public acceptance
• Benefits - mobility, commutes and deliveries, and decreased 
congestion, emissions, and noise
NASA
• ATM-eXploration Project, UAM Sub-Project
• ConOps, Technical Challenges, Reference Implementations, 
Interoperability
• Series of simulations for UAM airspace management, high-tempo 
information exchange, connecting partners, and preparation for 
flight tests
4Regional Modeling UAM Planning Tool
• Region/city and attributes selection
• Environmental, zoning, transit systems, hospitals, etc.
• Algorithmic aggregation of attributes
• Grid-based location suggestions and vertiport selection
• Route structure design (weather, noise, battery, etc.)
• Frequency/density impact assessment
5Planning Tool (Continued)
• Properties
– Environmental, demand, multi-modal
– Open source
– Open architecture
• Needs
– Attribute selection
– Tool structure/design
– Demand profiles
6We’re on our way!
Vertiport at SEA
(simple noise model)
Vertiport at HWD
(noise, zoning, 
surface transit)
BART
Noise
Zones
7Demo
(Kapil.Sheth@nasa.gov)
• industrial, commercial, residential, downtown, open space, airports, mixed use
• BART, CalTrain,
• Distance to BART
• Parameters for the vertiport
• Animate pictures
• Aggregation function, Criteria used to aggregate with a weighting function
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