2020/10/05 by Suchithra Rajendran, Sharan Srinivas
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Air traffic control #Automotive engineering #Business #Computer science #Engineering #Marketing #Operations research #Service (business) #Smart Parking Systems Research #Takeoff #Takeoff and landing #Taxis #Traffic congestion #Transport engineering #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Transportation and Mobility Innovations #cs.CY #math.OC
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.tre.2020.102090
published as Transportation research part E: logistics and transportation review, 143, 102090 (2020) · This is a pre-print version of the manuscript accepted in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102090)
openalex publication_date 2020/10/05 · arxiv created 2021/02/24 · arxiv updated 2021/03/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Expected to operate in the imminent future, air taxi service (ATS) is an aerial on-demand transport for a single passenger or a small group of riders, which seeks to transform the method of everyday commute. This uncharted territory in the emerging transportation world is anticipated to enable consumers bypass traffic congestion in urban road networks. By adopting an electric vertical takeoff and landing concept (eVTOL), air taxis could be operational from skyports retrofitted on building rooftops, thus gaining advantage from an implementation standpoint. Motivated by the potential impact of ATS, this study provides a review of air taxi systems and associated operations. We first discuss the current developments in the ATS (demand prediction, air taxi network design, and vehicle configuration). Next, we anticipate potential future challenges of ATS from an operations management perspective, and review the existing literature that could be leveraged to tackle these problems (ride-matching, pricing strategies, vehicle maintenance scheduling, and pilot training and recruitment). Finally, we detail future research opportunities in the air taxi domain.