A Modular Design Concept for Vertiports in Urban Air Mobility Systems

Abstract

Current technological developments open up the possibility of implementing airborne passenger transport in urban areas. The concepts for urban air transport are mostly based on so-called vertiports and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles with rotary wings. Depending on the function of a vertiport in a network, various configurations are required, ranging from vertistops, over flex-vertiports, traffic hubs, up to maintenance hubs. The Vertiport project aims to develop a modular design for such vertiports and to implement the idea of function-oriented modularization in the construction domain. This paper presents the first implementation approach with exemplary application examples.