关键词: 航空运输, 城市空中交通, 智能体仿真, 垂直起降场, 容量评估

Abstract: As a critical infrastructure for urban air mobility (UAM) operations, the layout design and capacity evaluation of vertiports are of great significance for improving the utilization rate of urban space. Firstly, taking the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) specifications as the design standard, the dimensions of the primary com鄄 ponents of the vertiport were determined according to the S-A1 aircraft. Secondly, vertiport layouts with different configurations and apron-pad ratios were designed. Finally, using the AnyLogic simulation software, related pa鄄 rameters including capacity, capacity-area ratio, average utilization rate and average waiting time were analyzed for each layout scheme. Simulation results indicated that in dual pad vertiports, under the same apron-pad ratio, the capacity-area ratio of the gallery-bridge layout and the linear layout of apron-pad in adjacent rows, both having longer taxiways , is relatively lower compared to the satellite-hall layout. For the same configuration, the satellite-hall layout with apron-pad ratios of 2.0 and 2.5 exhibits higher capacity-area ratio and lower average waiting time. When the apron-pad ratios increase to 3.0, the vertiport capacity tends to saturate and the average waiting time significantly rises. The findings of this study can provide theoretical support and technical references for the planning, design and engineering construction of urban vertiports.

Key words: air transportation, urban air mobility, agent-based simulation, vertiport, capacity evaluation