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Integrated departure and boundary control for low-altitude air city transport systems

Safadi, Yazan
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Geroliminis, Nikolas  
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Haddad, Jack
November 1, 2024
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Connectivity and digitalization will enable new control measures in urban air mobility operations and open new ways for integrating these measures in real-time traffic management. Hence, new control strategies can be designed to regulate both demand and supply of Low-Altitude Air city Transport (LAAT) systems. This can be achieved by adjusting aircraft departure times, and manipulating transfer aircraft flows at boundary air regions. In this research, new model-based control strategies are designed, where aircraft departure management and boundary control strategies are integrated. The aviation operation can benefit from the proposed flow-oriented control paradigm, which can balance the LAAT system's supply and demand, i.e. controlling the transfer flow between airspace regions and simultaneously managing the aircraft departure (inflow). The current paper presents the development of different control strategies: Departure Controller (DC), Boundary Controller (BC), and integrated Departure and Boundary Controller (DBC), with supporting simulation results. The designed controllers are tested in a new LAAT framework that considers modeling and control of LAAT operation while capturing the microscopic and macroscopic levels simultaneously.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.trb.2024.103020
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85201395329

Author(s)
Safadi, Yazan

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Geroliminis, Nikolas  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Haddad, Jack

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Date Issued

2024-11-01

Published in
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
Volume

189

Article Number

103020

Subjects

Feedback control

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Low-altitude air city transport system

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Macroscopic fundamental diagram

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Traffic flow

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Traffic management and control

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Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center

EuroTech Alliance

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January 24, 2025
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