Abstract
Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabling consumers access to on-demand air mobility, cargo and package delivery, healthcare applications, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network. While a number of technical and social concerns have been raised about AAM, early use cases for emergency response and aeromedical transport may be key to demonstrating the concept and building public acceptance. Using a five-step multi-method approach consisting of preliminary scoping, modeling performance metrics, developing baseline assumptions, analyzing scenarios, and applying a Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis, this study examines the potential operational and market viability of the air ambulance market using a variety of aircraft and propulsion types. The analysis concludes that electric vertical take-off and land (eVTOL) aircraft could confront a number of operational and economic challenges for aeromedical applications compared to hybrid vertical take-off and land (VTOL) aircraft and rotorcraft. The study finds that technological improvements such as reduced charge times, increased operational range, and battery swapping could make the eVTOL aircraft more reliable and cost-effective for aeromedical transport.
Highlights
Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabling consumers access to ondemand air mobility, cargo and package delivery, healthcare applications, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network [1,2].While AAM may be enabled by the convergence of several factors, a number of challenges such as community acceptance, safety, social equity, planning, airspace management, and others could create barriers to mainstreaming [2,3]
While a number of technical and social concerns have been raised about AAM, early use cases for emergency response and aeromedical transport may be key to demonstrating the concept and building public acceptance [4]
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Summary
Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabling consumers access to ondemand air mobility, cargo and package delivery, healthcare applications, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network [1,2]. While a number of technical and social concerns have been raised about AAM, early use cases for emergency response and aeromedical transport may be key to demonstrating the concept and building public acceptance [4]. Examples of emergency response use cases include air ambulance, emergency supply delivery, organ transport, search and rescue operations, firefighting, and other disaster response and humanitarian applications. The aircraft and vehicles that can be used in a medical emergency mission and provide medical transport include: (1) ground vehicles, (2) rotorcraft ( known as rotary-wing and helicopters), and fixed-wing aircraft. 50,000 ground vehicles for short-distance patient transport to medical facilities across the United States [5]. This paper focuses on the air ambulance use case which includes medical transport to and from a hospital (or other medical facility) for emergency and non-emergency care
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