Evaluating IAM through the lens of System of Systems: State of the Art and Highlight of IAM-OSA

Kurzfassung

Innovative Air Mobility refers to the safe, secure and sustainable mobility of passengers and cargo enabled by integrating new technologies (such as eVTOLs) into a multimodal transportation system. As such it involves numerous stakeholders with their own interest in the IAM System of Systems. IAM necessitates significant innovation and development to achieve the desired capabilities, relating to all aspects including aircraft, vertiport, airspace management and more. This work presents the System of Systems approach to evaluating IAM/AAM following a product push paradigm, where the objective is to identify how a given aircraft can be embedded into the existing transport system while ensuring profitability, sustainability and value addition. Furthermore, through the use of Value/Business Models representing the satisfaction of each major stakeholder, this work evaluates how stakeholder satisfaction varies with the SoS design space. The SoS evaluation of the IAM is carried out using an Agent-Based Simulation of IAM built using the SoSID Toolkit where the active stakeholders, their actions and interactions are modelled. Where possible, a parametric approach is adopted in the modelling to allow for broad design space exploration across all active stakeholders. The work carried out as part of the COLOSSUS Project, focuses on the integration of a fixed eVTOL concept into the existing Transport System.