Ivana Moerland

German Aerospace Center (DLR) | DLR · System Architekturen (Kabine und Nutzlast Abteilung)

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is currently one of the fastest growing fields in future mobility research. Despite the huge potential, however, processes such as designing future eVTOL cabins are complex and create various challenges for researchers and designers all over the world. Within the project Horizon UAM at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the...

Futuristic meets elderly – Are seniors potential passengers for air taxis?

The society is a dynamic, ever-evolving environment. The constant growth and changes make it necessary to keep on developing systems and products adapted to the current state. This is most certainly also the case for an air rescue system. The performance design of the vehicle must go hand in hand with the cabin design optimized for the user. The de...

In Urban Air Mobility (UAM), the social acceptance is widely assumed to play an essential role for future development activities in this field. Since passengers will spend most of their trips inside the cabin area, the desire for safety and privacy within the cabin might have a substantial impact on people’s opinions about UAM vehicles. In order to...

Es ist davon auszugehen, dass die Covid-19 Pandemie den Luftverkehr weiterhin noch nachhaltig beeinflussen wird. Die Anzahl der angebotenen Sitzkapazitäten ist seit Pandemiebeginn um 50% eingebrochen und die ICAO-Prognose zeigt, dass vorpandemische Kapazitäten auch dieses Jahr noch nicht wieder erreicht werden, sondern etwa 20% darunter liegen. Wei...

In the last years the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed an integrated design environment for rotorcraft with the aim to deal with a variety of different configurations. This paper presents the first design study which has been a future SAR rotorcraft related to DLR’s Guiding Concept 4 Rescue Helicopter 2030. In the run-up of the engineeri...

This paper addresses issues currently present in the aircraft cabin design process. It focuses on making the design process more time and cost efficient, while altogether involving the end-users (passengers and cabin crew) in the development process in its earliest stages. By understanding the underlying issues and reasons the cabin is developed ac...

Various manufacturers express the vision of using air taxis for passenger transport in cities within a few years. However, current research shows that the society is still sceptical about air taxis. There are numerous factors influencing acceptance and willingness to use air taxis. One of them is a pleasant and comfortable cabin design. Within a us...

Within German Aerospace Center (DLR), a project called HorizonUAM was launched in July 2020. Its main goal is to develop and design an aerial vehicle which would support the infrastructure of the ever-growing cities. The vehicle will be designed for the four different scenarios: airport shuttle, intracity transport, intercity transport and suburban...

Within German Aerospace Center (DLR), a project called HorizonUAM was launched in July 2020. Its main goal is to develop and design an aerial vehicle which would support the infrastructure of the ever-growing cities. The vehicle will be designed for the four different scenarios: airport shuttle, intracity transport, intercity transport and suburban...

As this paper is written, the world has been struck with a global pandemic, difficult to contain and very easy to spread. The most effective countermeasure so far is social distancing, to ensure no aerosols are exchanged. This poses a vast challenge in small, enclosed spaces, like an aircraft cabin. Unfortunately, such a countermeasure has had a gr...

In order to deal with health threatening emergencies and the risk of infections during flight, a concept design for a multifunctional and medical separation area (MMSA) in an aircraft cabin has been developed and will be presented in this paper. The foundation for the conceptual design process is the identification of central user groups, their erg...

In the scope of InDiCaD (Innovative Digital Cabin Design), a project at German Aerospace Center (DLR), research has been done on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the willingness of the passengers to fly under the given circumstances. The research covers three scenarios; firstly, one where Covid-19 has left no traces, secondly one where the co...

Zukünftige Luftfahrzeuge müssen möglichst klimafreundlich und leise sein – trotzdem sollte der Komfort während der Reise nicht auf der Strecke bleiben. Neue Kabinenkonzepte könnten diese Anforderungen erfüllen. Am DLR-Institut für Systemarchitekturen in der Luftfahrt in Hamburg-Finkenwerder untersucht ein Team von Industriedesignerinnen und -design...

Im Entwurf innovativer Flugzeugkabinenkonzepte für die Zukunft zählt die Passagierakzeptanz zu den wichtigsten Kriterien für Hersteller, Fluggesellschaften und Forschungseinrichtungen. Im Zuge wachsender Passagierzahlen sowie weltweiter gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen besteht die zentrale Herausforderung darin, dass sich veränderte Anforderungspro...

This paper addresses the issues currently present in the aircraft cabin design process. It focuses on making the design process more time and cost efficient, while altogether involving the end-users (passengers and cabin crew) in the development process in its earliest stages. By understanding the underlying issues and the reasons the cabin is deve...