An In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS) Concept of Operations for Vertiport Design and Operations

Abstract

The National Airspace System is foreseen to undergo revolutionary change with Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and its use of vertiports to transport passengers and cargo. To assure safety with UAM and more broadly with Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), the National Academies recommended an In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS) that is extensible to the design and operation of vertiports. Vertiport designs will scale in several dimensions including physical size and infrastructure depending upon location and in the Services, Functions, and Capabilities required for assuring safety with increasingly complex vertiport designs and operations. These operations will be enabled by evolving technologies including electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for passenger-and cargo-carrying commercial transportation. Within this construct, safety hazards and risk mitigations involving predictive data analytics and modeling will be used. Use cases and future challenges are examined to guide maturation of the IASMS ConOps for vertiports.

Authors

• K Ellis Langley Research Center
• L Prinzel Langley Research Center
• M Davies Ames Research Center
• J Homola Ames Research Center
• L Glaab Langley Research Center
• P Krois Crown Consulting, Inc
• N Oza Ames Research Center
• R Mah Ames Research Center
• C Stephens Langley Research Center
• M Vincent Langley Research Center
• J Ackerson Flight Research Aerospace
• S Infeld Analytical Mechanics Associates (United States)