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43 Impact Assessment and Opportunities for Urban Air Mobility As UAM draws closer to becoming a reality, municipal planners should begin identifying how this new form of urban transportation will affect the lives of their citizens. In particular, transportation and infrastructure planners have an opportunity to accommodate UAM systems and use them to enhance current and future developments in other sectors.
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44 Urban Air Mobility: An Airport Perspective • Standards-developing organizations' recommendations and guidelines; and • Supplemental analysis of the airport market. In this analysis, the team identifies substantial impacts on airport planning and operation from each use case.
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Impact Assessment and Opportunities for Urban Air Mobility 45 UAM projects eligible for grants and reimbursements for development and may serve as an effective springboard for broader airport improvement projects that can enhance capacity, environmental sustainability, efficiency, and service. In addition, both Air Metro and Air Cargo create potential business development opportunities for airport and local community businesses through possible promotional partnerships.
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46 Urban Air Mobility: An Airport Perspective At more mature stages of UAM development, high UAM passenger volumes in many major United States cities may drive large amounts of traffic to and from major airports. In such a scenario, it is likely that significant airport real estate may need to be allocated for UAM vertiports and larger "vertihubs." More specifically, high passenger volumes may result from the airport as the passenger origin-destination and from major UAM hubs serving as a connection point for popular routes.
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Impact Assessment and Opportunities for Urban Air Mobility 47 regulators to permit autonomy at any level of aviation is well-founded; modern autonomous systems -- anchored in exotic machine learning and artificial intelligence platforms -- are not well understood and may create significant uncertainty for operators in their proximity. Journalists at the MIT Technology Review point out that most machine learning (and artificial intelligence, more generally)
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48 Urban Air Mobility: An Airport Perspective In the longer term, stakeholders may see these challenges grow in scope. The expansion of UAM to a significant number of airports may create financial challenges for airport development and maintenance.
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Impact Assessment and Opportunities for Urban Air Mobility 49 traffic (Altiscope 2018)
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50 Urban Air Mobility: An Airport Perspective near airports and may require more advanced forms of UTM. Such systems may include additional ground-based infrastructure or human oversight.
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Impact Assessment and Opportunities for Urban Air Mobility 51 Infrastructure. According to the Airports Council, over $128 billion in infrastructure spending will be required by 2023 to meet anticipated growth in air passengers and cargo.
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52 Urban Air Mobility: An Airport Perspective displace some degree of those deliveries using lightweight, autonomous, electrified drones and may impact communities in terms of changes in ambient noise and environmental effects. Specifically, airport planners should be mindful of impacts such as • Increased noise above standard levels for communities in the Air Cargo service area and • Likely decreases in carbon dioxide emissions from decreasing reliance on ground-based transport.
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Impact Assessment and Opportunities for Urban Air Mobility 53 Current trends in survivability for heart attacks and strokes are expected to continue but depend on rapid treatment. In many cases, particularly for rural patients or those not near major hospitals, air transport is the only realistic way to overcome time constraints.
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54 Urban Air Mobility: An Airport Perspective storage and handling of medical waste. Further, the safety of patients transported using UAM vehicles remains relatively uncertain compared to legacy aircraft.
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Impact Assessment and Opportunities for Urban Air Mobility 55 Community. Near-term growth in United States air medical transport is likely to be driven by decreasing rural access to medical care and improved treatment options.
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56 Urban Air Mobility: An Airport Perspective opportunities for both airport planners and UAM stakeholders aiming to locate Air Metro facilities at medium-sized primary hub airports or smaller reliever airports. However, to be considered for this funding, an airport must be part of the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)
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Impact Assessment and Opportunities for Urban Air Mobility 57 increased urban foot traffic anchored in improved mobility. It may then benefit urban businesses and UAM stakeholders to identify revenue-sharing agreements, such as using UAM trips to guide passengers to local businesses through ads or exclusive offers.
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58 Urban Air Mobility: An Airport Perspective seek to work with Air Cargo operators to promote their products and get them to new customers. Ventures most likely to benefit from such agreements include local restaurants and small-scale consumer goods manufacturers.
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