Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a solution, utilizing electric vertical takeoff and landing capable (e-VTOL) aircraft for transporting people or cargo in urban airspace. However, the limited space for vertiports in cities, compounded by buildings and ground obstacles, necessitates efficient vertiport layout designs to ensure safety and operational efficiency. Designing the vertiport involves obstacle analysis to find safe flight paths adhering to authorities' regulatory guidelines, and determination of physical dimensions of its facilities to accommodate heterogeneous aircraft dimensions. The Vertiport Layout Design Problem (VLDP) addresses these challenges by using an integer programming model that can be applied to any vertiport candidate site.

See details below:

•  Park, B. T., & Kim, S. H. (2022). Vertiport Design Optimization using Integer Programming, AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference

•  Park, B. T. and Kim, S. H., Optimal Vertiport Layout Design with Connectivity Requirements using Integer Programming (Working Paper)

 This research aims to provide a method for determining the optimal sequencing and scheduling of urban air traffic flow in a vertiport environment with multiple corridors to avoid potential collisions and minimize traffic delays.