Karolin Schweiger

German Aerospace Center (DLR) | DLR · Department of Pilot Assistance

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a potential game changer for urban transportation, promising faster, more efficient and affordable services. However, beyond the visionary concepts, it is crucial to explore and discuss the opportunities and challenges of UAM and vertidrome operations also from a research perspective. The DLR research project...

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a new air transportation system for passengers and cargo in urban environments, enabled by new technologies and integrated into multimodal transportation systems. The vision of UAM comprises the mass use in urban and suburban environments, complementing existing transportation systems and contributing to the decarbonizat...

This paper presents the Vertidrome Airside Level of Service (VALoS) framework, a novel performance metric designed to evaluate airside traffic flow operations at vertidromes in the context of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). As the UAM industry rapidly evolves, the need for a comprehensive evaluation framework becomes increasingly important. The VALoS fra...

This study examines the impact of wind/gust speed conditions on airside traffic flows at vertiports in the context of on-demand urban air mobility based on the Vertidrome Airside Level of Service Framework. A wind-dependent operational concept introducing four wind speed categories with corresponding wind-dependent separation values is developed an...

Urban air mobility is a rapidly growing field of research. While drones or unmanned aerial vehicles have been operated mainly in the private and military sector in the past, an increasing range of opportunities is opening up for commercial applications. A new multitude of passenger-carrying drone or air taxi concepts promises to fulfill the dream o...

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) presents a complex challenge in aviation due to the high degree of innovation required across multiple domains to realize it. From the use of advanced aircraft powered by new technologies, the management of the urban air space to enable high density operations, to the operation of specialized vertidromes serving as a start...

CORUS-XUAM is the extension of the European U-space Concept of Operations (ConOps) – delivered by CORUS – covering Urban Air Mobility including passenger-carrying operations. Several parts of the updated ConOps will subsequently be demonstrated in a sequence of flight trials across seven European countries addressing different urban air mobility us...

Wetterparameter wie Wind, Sicht und Niederschlag können die Kapazität eines Start- und Landebahnsystems erheblich beeinflussen. Für Planung zukünftiger Flugplanperioden ist es wichtig, mögliche Auswirkungen des Wetters abzuschätzen. Vorgestellt wird ein Modell, das auf der Basis von mehrjährigen Wetteraufzeichnungen für einen heutigen oder zukünfti...

Wetterparameter wie Wind, Sicht und Niederschlag können die Kapazität eines Start- und Landebahnsystems erheblich beeinflussen. Für Planung zukünftiger Flugplanperioden ist es wichtig, mögliche Auswirkungen des Wetters abzuschätzen. Vorgestellt wird ein Modell, das auf der Basis von mehrjährigen Wetteraufzeichnungen für einen heutigen oder zukünfti...

Urban air mobility is a rapidly growing field of research. While drones or unmanned aerial vehicles have been operated mainly in the private and military sector in the past, an increasing range of opportunities is opening up for commercial applications. A new multitude of passenger carrying drone or air taxi concepts promise to fulfill the dream of...

Hundreds of different electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL) concepts are currently under development in order to serve a future mode of transport: Urban Air Mobility. Technological developments and certification capabilities of emerging eVTOL concepts reached a development stage which might allow first European UAM operations in th...

Novel electric aircraft designs coupled with intense efforts from academia, government and industry led to a paradigm shift in urban transportation by introducing UAM. While UAM promises to introduce a new mode of transport, it depends on ground infrastructure to operate safely and efficiently in a highly constrained urban environment. Due to its n...

In many cities the (public) transportation system already faces challenges to adjust appropriately to the growing population. Lifting the transportation offer into the third dimension by introducing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) may be a promising step towards an improvement. But what characteristics does UAM need to offer in order to represent successf...

As one might expect Urban Air Mobility to be a brand-new topic, the approach of lifting (a portion of) urban traffic into the air is not really new. Helicopter operations and the hype about tiltrotor aircrafts at the end of the 20th century already built a path towards urban aerial ridesharing operations. Even if some developments remained theoreti...

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) beschreibt für viele den Beginn eines neuen Transport-Zeitalters von Personen und Gütern. Transport per Luft soll innerhalb und zwischen urbanen Gebieten eine lukrative Alternative zu herkömmlichen Verkehrsmitteln darstellen und verspricht die Hoffnung auf eine umweltfreundliche und komfortable Transportmöglichkeit, welche...

View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-3197.vid Efficiency, safety, feasibility, sustainability and affordability are among the key characteristics of future urban mobility. The project “HorizonUAM – Urban Air Mobility Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR)” provides first answers to this vision by pooling existing competenc...

View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-3201.vid The vertidrome, a ground infrastructure supporting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) operations, is one of the key elements of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). It accommodates UAM airside and landside operations and may provide connection to other transportation modes. A vertidromes’ proc...

View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-3198.vid The term Urban Air Mobility covers many several applications to meet different transport needs. The cross-institutional and interdisciplinary research project “HorizonUAM – Urban Air Mobility Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR)” brings together a wide variety of departments...

Presentation of a performance assessment concept (Vertidrome Airside Level of Service - VALoS) in order to evaluate the capability of a vertiport to process a specific traffic flow and to ensure connectivity to other transporation modes.

The German public transportation system is already facing challenges adjusting appropriately the existent public transportation network to the growing population in rural and urban areas. Lifting the existent offer into the third dimension by introducing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) may be a promising step towards an improvement and has to be considere...