Urban Air Mobility - network design

Select vertiports location optimally

We want to build an air transportation network based on the original ground transportation network in a metropolitan city. The goal is to minimize the traffic congestion in this new hybrid ground-air transportation network.

On the left, ground traffic network loading. On the right, air traffic network loading
The total link loading reduction in the ground network due to vertiport addition for different budget value.

Related publications

  1. Vertiport Selection in Hybrid Air-Ground Transportation Networks via Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints
    Yu, Yue, Wang, Mengyuan, Mesbahi, Mehran, and Topcu, Ufuk
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05702 2022