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Title: Cargo Delivery by Passenger eVTOL Aircraft: A Case Study in the San Francisco Bay Area

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.2514

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Abstract: We consider an example application of electric VTOL (eVTOL) aircraft, designed origi- nally for passenger operations in urban air mobility (UAM) markets, for transporting cargo. The particular case study we examine involves delivering small packages from a warehouse located in Tracy, CA to vertiport hubs in the San Franciso Bay Area. The package transit is envisioned to occur via two legs: an eVTOL trip from the warehouse to a vertiport lo- cated near the consumer, followed by last-mile delivery by car, small UAS, or other mode from the vertiport to the consumer. First, we formulate and solve an optimization problem to select cargo vertiport locations by maximizing the package demand served, subject to limits on the number of vertiports. Next, we examine the sizing, mission performance, recharge time requirements, and daily package throughput of two representative classes of eVTOL vehicles for this case study example.

Url: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-2006

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Authors: German, Brian, J; Daskilewicz, Matthew, J; Hamilton, Thomas, K; Warren, Matthew, M

Conference Name: 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Publisher Location: Kissimmee, Florida

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other

Countries: United States