VertiSync: A Traffic Management Policy with Maximum Throughput for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility NetworksUrban Air Mobility (UAM) offers a solution to current traffic congestion by
providing on-demand air mobility in urban areas. Effective traffic management
is crucial for efficient operation of UAM systems, especially for high-demand
scenarios. In this paper, we present VertiSync, a centralized traffic
management policy for on-demand UAM networks. VertiSync schedules the aircraft
for either servicing trip requests or rebalancing in the network subject to
aircraft safety margins and separation requirements during takeoff and landing.
We characterize the system-level throughput of VertiSync, which determines the
demand threshold at which travel times transition from being stabilized to
being increasing over time. We show that the proposed policy is able to
maximize the throughput for sufficiently large fleet sizes. We demonstrate the
performance of VertiSync through a case study for the city of Los Angeles. We
show that VertiSync significantly reduces travel times compared to a first-come
first-serve scheduling policy.
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