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  1. arXiv先进空中交通研究历史资料

    Corridor Design and Separation Definition in Advanced Air Mobility: Systematic Literature Review

    Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) uses electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles to address urban congestion and emissions. However, corridor design, operation management, and separation standards remain underexamined for safe high-density operations. This paper applies the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines to systematically review relevant literature from IEEE Xplore and Web of Science, focusing on publications from 2010 to 2024. A Context, Intervention, Mechanism, and Outcome (CIMO) framework guided the development of research questions. After screening 2,039 journal and conference papers, 62 articles met the inclusion criteria. The findings reveal a lack of integrated corridor design approaches, limited operational strategies, and reliance on standards originally designed for conventional aviation. A unified corridor design and separation definition frameworks and taxonomies are proposed to address these shortcomings, informing future investigations and operational frameworks for safe, efficient eVTOL operation deployment in urban settings.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）

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  1. arXiv先进空中交通研究历史资料

    Like Uber or Like Buses? Economic Feasibility Analysis of UAM for Airport Access

    The airport access use case is a promising early-stage application for Urban Air Mobility (UAM). Understanding the operational paradigm of UAM at airports is crucial for making equitable and effective regulatory and management decisions. A central open question is whether UAM will be integrated into the airport transportation network as a conventional scheduled transit service, such as subways and rail, or as a Transportation Network Company (TNC) characterized by dynamic supply-demand matching. In this paper, we propose a two-stage framework for conducting an economic feasibility analysis of UAM networks. In the first stage, we introduce a joint-supply-demand variable pricing problem to evaluate the impact of dynamic pricing on UAM operations. This model uses a binary logit formulation to capture the trade-off between travel time advantages and fare levels. In the second stage, the determined demand is used as input for the Electric Urban Air Mobility Vehicle Routing Problem with Non-linear Charging Time (eUAMVRP-NL), which optimizes fleet scheduling and charging decisions to derive operating revenue and cost estimates. We apply this framework to a case study of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) access market with an eight-spoke vertiport network. Our results indicate that UAM operations benefit significantly from TNC-like management; a variable pricing policy can increase operating profits by more than 100\% compared to fixed-pricing schemes. Furthermore, we identify economies of stage length in longer UAM flights.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）

5月29日周五
  1. arXiv先进空中交通研究历史资料

    Safe Arrival Scheduling at Constraint Waypoints in UAM Corridors

    This study introduces a novel Air Traffic Control (ATC) concept to support self-separation between vehicles in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) corridors. Our proposed scheme involves sharing intended arrival schedules at Constrained Waypoints (CWPs) among UAM operators. We propose two approaches to assist the arrival scheduling at CWPs by computing the minimum arrival time gap necessary for each pair of vehicles to ensure their safety throughout the flights within the corridor. The first approach considers the minimum separation distance required by the Near Mid-Air-Collision (NMAC) avoidance rules, while the second one is based on the Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) rules. We demonstrate that the NMAC-rule-based approach can effectively prevent collisions in normal circumstances, where the vehicles adhere to the speed limits of the corridor. However, this approach does not guarantee safety if vehicles exceed the speed limits. Conversely, while the RSS-rule-based approach ensures collision prevention during emergencies when vehicles exceed speed limits, it may require larger arrival time gaps under normal circumstances, which may lead to reduced traffic flow. Our results are confirmed through numerical simulations.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）

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  1. arXiv先进空中交通研究历史资料

    From Visual to Digital: Coordination Scheduling and Its Effect on Safety and Efficiency in UAM Corridors

    This paper explores scalable coordination strategies for urban air mobility (UAM) corridors by comparing two representative approaches. The first, inspired by visual flight rules (VFR), is a local coordination strategy relying on spatial information available to each vehicle. The second, conceptually aligned with digital flight rules (DFR), is a global coordination strategy based on shared estimated times of arrival (ETAs) at constrained waypoints (CWPs). To support this comparison, we introduce a lightweight disturbance-avoidance mechanism that enables vehicles to adjust their ETAs in response to forecasted disruptions using shared information. We evaluate these approaches through numerical simulations under varying disturbance levels, comparing the locally reactive VFR-style scheme with the globally coordinated DFR-style scheme. Results show that VFR achieves high throughput in low-traffic scenarios but becomes increasingly prone to collisions at higher traffic densities unless conservative separation is enforced, which reduces traffic efficiency. In contrast, DFR maintains more consistent safety performance and traffic efficiency, even under moderate ETA update propagation delays. These findings highlight the advantages of DFR-style global coordination in managing high-density air traffic control (ATC) operations within UAM corridors.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）

  2. arXiv先进空中交通研究历史资料

    Safety-Assured Arrival Scheduling in Sequential UAM Corridor Sections under Speed and Separation Constraints

    This paper presents a safety-assured arrival-scheduling framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) corridor operations. We propose an analytical method to compute a sufficient ETA gap at Constrained Waypoints (CWPs) that guarantees longitudinal separation along sequential corridor sections with heterogeneous speed limits. The resulting ETA-gap condition depends on section-specific speed bounds and the required separation distance, providing an efficiently computable rule suitable for integration into future digital ETA-scheduling and air traffic management systems. We show that the computed ETA gap ensures safe separation across all corridor sections under prescribed section travel times and speed limits. Numerical simulations for a decreasing-speed corridor confirm that vehicles coordinated with the proposed mechanism adjust their speeds to maintain the required spacing, avoid potential collisions, and support improved traffic flow compared with unscheduled operations.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）

  3. arXiv先进空中交通研究历史资料

    Dynamic Lane Allocation in UAM Corridors for Efficient Multimodal Door-to-Door Mobility

    This article presents dynamic directional lane allocation in urban air mobility (UAM) corridors as a discrete-time mixed-integer linear program (MILP). This formulation activates, deactivates, and reverses lane direction as bi-directional airspace demand evolves. We model demand from disaggregate ground travel data by decomposing each trip into a multi-modal sequence with first-, middle-, and last-mile legs and routing the UAM-served middle-mile segment through a vertiport-side dispatch model. We use the San Francisco Bay Area as a case study by placing a multi-region spanning corridor between Contra Costa county and Silicon Valley. We find that the dynamic policy cuts unused airspace capacity by 5x, increases mean lane utilization from 36-48% to 67% at the same service level relative to baselines, and reduces commuting-population mean travel time by up to 21.6%. These results show that dynamic configuration of airspace capacity alleviates a significant percentage of the under-utilization issue of lane-based UAM airspace design and UAM concept of operations. This dynamic allocation also provides a safe, structural way to increase throughput, making UAM a more viable complement to multimodal door-to-door mobility systems.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）

5月21日周四
  1. arXiv先进空中交通研究历史资料

    Secure Coordination for Vertiport Sequencing in Advanced Air Mobility

    Advanced air mobility operations will require reliable coordination mechanisms for managing dense traffic near vertiports. However, sequencing decisions may become vulnerable when they rely on potentially falsified self-reported information such as estimated time of arrival. Self-interested vehicles may misreport their arrival times to obtain favorable landing priority, while malicious actors may spoof information to disrupt sequencing decisions or induce unnecessary congestion. This paper studies secure coordination for vertiport sequencing under sensing uncertainty. We consider a coordinator that combines self-reported Remote-ID information with externally obtained surveillance measurements to check reports and assign separation-feasible arrival schedules. Since surveillance-based estimates are uncertain, falsified reports may remain consistent with the sensing uncertainty region and cannot always be rejected outright. We therefore formulate sequencing as a robust design problem over this uncertainty region. Self-interested misreporting is modeled as a strategic deviation that improves the reporting vehicle's own sequencing outcome, whereas malicious spoofing is modeled as an adversarial disturbance that degrades the system-level objective. The final paper will develop robust sequencing rules over surveillance-consistent uncertainty sets and evaluate their performance in representative vertiport sequencing scenarios.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）

5月20日周三
  1. arXiv eVTOL预印本历史资料

    Collaborative Optimization Framework of Battery Charging / Swapping Stations for eVTOLs Based on Closed-Loop Supply Chain and Space-Time Network

    Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, by virtue of their advantages such as high efficiency, environmental friendliness, and low noise, are regarded as an effective means of alleviating urban traffic congestion. Although eVTOLs have policy support, industrial foundations, and market prospects globally, their commercialization process still faces obstacles. Purely electric eVTOLs confront constraints including limited battery energy density, high operational power requirements, and challenges associated with rapid energy replenishment, which collectively restrict their flight endurance and application scenarios. To tackle these issues, following an investigation into battery energy replenishment strategies, a closed-loop supply chain-based optimization framework for eVTOL battery charging and swapping is proposed. First, a time-space network technique is employed to solve the modeling challenge of an efficient and flexible battery transportation system between charging stations and swapping stations. Subsequently, aiming to maximize the operational revenue of the model, optimized management of battery swapping, transportation, and charging processes is implemented, facilitating coordinated operation among eVTOLs, swapping stations, and charging stations. On this basis, the model is solved by Gurobi, verifying its feasibility. Finally, the results of sensitivity analysis show that the model performs excellently in several aspects, including battery swap service quality, system sustainability, and operational resilience.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）

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    Time-To-Reach Separation and Safety Filtering for Safe, Fair, and Efficient Multi-Agent Coordination

    Advanced Air Mobility operations are expected to significantly increase aerial traffic in urban airspace, requiring autonomous traffic management systems to ensure collision-free operations in highly congested environments. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent coordination framework that uses minimum time-to-reach (TTR) as a unifying metric for priority assignment, temporal separation, and safety filtering. We focus on the problem of coordinating multiple aerial vehicles merging into an air corridor while maintaining safe separation between vehicles. Vehicles are assigned arrival-consistent priority based on TTR, and target TTR values are used to enforce temporal spacing, which induces spatial separation. A priority-consistent safety filtering layer based on Hamilton-Jacobi reachability value functions promotes collision avoidance while minimally modifying the reference guidance. Simulation results in a highly congested corridor merging scenario show that the proposed method improves safety, fairness, and efficiency compared to time-optimal guidance and priority-agnostic safety filtering.（预印本；同行评审状态请核对原文。）