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Safety Considerations in Emerging Electric Aircraft Architectures
(2018-10-11)
Safety and certification considerations which impact the design of an emerging new class of small, electric aircraft were investigated. Based on an assessment of the different emerging aircraft designs, vehicles were grouped ...
Data-Driven Flight Procedure Simulation and Noise Analysis in a Large-Scale Air Transportation System
(2018-07-03)
Aircraft noise is a growing source of community concern around airports. Despite the introduction of quieter aircraft, increased precision of onboard guidance systems has resulted in new noise impacts driven by overflight ...
Preliminary Development and Flight Trials of a Cruise Altitude and Speed Optimization Decision Support Tool
(2018-10-11)
A cruise altitude and speed optimization decision support tool, based on the concept of a minimum cost altitude tunnel, was developed to aid flight crew and dispatcher
situational awareness and decision-making in vertical ...
Assessment of Air Traffic Control for Urban Air Mobility and Unmanned Systems
(2018-09-10)
This paper assesses how the introduction of urban air mobility services and unmanned aircraft systems may challenge Air Traffic Control (ATC) in the United States and what opportunities exist to support these forthcoming ...
Constraint Identification In On-Demand Mobility For Aviation Through An Exploratory Case Study Of Los Angeles
(2018-05-11)
On-Demand Mobility (ODM) for Aviation is an emerging concept that proposes to provide aircraft-based, point-to-point transportation to consumers within a metropolitan area. This paper explicitly identified key operational ...
Opportunities to Enhance Air Emergency Medical Service Scale through New Vehicles and Operations
(2018-07-10)
Air Emergency Medical Service (Air EMS) provides unique and important medical trans- port capabilities to society. Air EMS can move patients or live organs more rapidly than surface modes over long distances or congested ...
Framework for Understanding the Driver's Trust in Automation and Its Implications on Driver's Decision and Behavior
(2018-02-26)
The aim of this paper is to understand how designs of the automated driving system influence the driver's automation use decisions, and to provide design recommendations for SAE level 2 or 3 automated driving systems that ...
Evaluation Of Key Operational Constraints Affecting On-Demand Mobility For Aviation In The Los Angeles Basin: Ground Infrastructure, Air Traffic Control And Noise
(2018-05-11)
This paper investigated three key operational constraints anticipated to impact On-Demand Mobility for Aviation markets in the Los Angeles basin including: community acceptance issues resulting from aircraft noise, the ...
Block 1 Procedure Recommendations for Logan Airport Community Noise Reduction
(2018-03-07)
Recent developments in navigation and surveillance technology have enabled new high-precision approach and departure operational procedures using GPS and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) standards. These procedures ...
Feasibility Study of Short Takeoff and Landing Urban Air Mobility Vehicles Using Geometric Programming
(2018-07-10)
Electric Short Takeoff and Landing (eSTOL) vehicles are proposed as a path towards implementing an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) network that reduces critical vehicle certification risks and offers advantages in vehicle performance ...