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SITRAER Proceedings – XVI SITRAER (2017)

Design of Corridors for UAVs in Urban Areas

  • Alexandre Carlos Brandão Ramos
  • Benjamas Panomruttanarug
  • Felix Mora-Camino

Instituto de Matematica e Computação, UNIFEI, Itajuba, Brazil · King Monkut University Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand · Laboratoire ENAC, Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France ‘Affiliation’

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Event
XVI SITRAER – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, October 25–27, 2017
Volume
Proceedings of XVI Air Transportation Symposium (SITRAER) · ISSN 2448-1912
Pages
786–793
Publisher
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/COPPE)
Editors
Fabio Krykhtine

Abstract

Recently UAVs have caught the attention of media with impressive applications in different fields such as military, security and rescue, agriculture and forestry. Urban applications of UAVs started already in the fields of urban security, land use control, traffic surveillance and the inspection of urban infrastructure (electric lines, bridges). However, new applications considering urban logistics are expected to develop in the next years resulting in an increasing traffic of UAVs devoted to urban logistics in urban skies. These special flying devices will be able to take profit of until now unused urban airspace and so alleviate ground traffic by diminishing the needs for ground-based logistic transportation which is one of the main contributor to ground urban traffic congestion. The current problem appears to present peculiarities with respect to traditional urban ground transportation network design problems or with respect to air transportation network design problems, so a new approach should be developed. Then, in this study the development of a genuine design method for the definition of a network of corridors to operate flows of UAVs devoted to urban logistics is considered. The main objectives which are considered while designing this network are traffic safety, network capacity, environment impact and efficiency. The proposed method generates a source graph to connect the main generators and attractors of UAVs traffic. Once this source graph is built, the predicted origin-destination demand (mean flights/day) is loaded in this network so that traffic corridors are characterized. The proposed approach is discussed and illustrated.

Keywords: UAVs; Network design; Urban skies; Logistics; Traffic assignment

How to cite

ABNT

RAMOS, Alexandre Carlos Brandão; PANOMRUTTANARUG, Benjamas; MORA-CAMINO, Felix. Design of Corridors for UAVs in Urban Areas. In: SIMPÓSIO DE TRANSPORTE AÉREO, 16., 2017, Rio de Janeiro. Anais [...]. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ/COPPE, 2018. p. 786-793. ISSN 2448-1912. Disponível em: https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2017-sit104.html.

APA

Ramos, A. C. B., Panomruttanarug, B., & Mora-Camino, F. (2017). Design of Corridors for UAVs in Urban Areas. In F. Krykhtine (Eds.), Proceedings of XVI Air Transportation Symposium (SITRAER) (pp. 786–793). UFRJ/COPPE. https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2017-sit104.html

BibTeX
@inproceedings{ramos2017design,
  author = {Ramos, Alexandre Carlos Brandão and Panomruttanarug, Benjamas and Mora-Camino, Felix},
  title = {{Design of Corridors for UAVs in Urban Areas}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of XVI Air Transportation Symposium (SITRAER)},
  editor = {Krykhtine, Fabio},
  pages = {786--793},
  year = {2017},
  address = {Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil},
  publisher = {Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/COPPE)},
  issn = {2448-1912},
  url = {https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2017-sit104.html}
}