TSRC

Developing Transportation Response Strategies for Wildfire Evacuations via an Empirically Supported Traffic Simulation of Berkeley, California

Zhao, Bingyu
Wong, Steven D.
2021

Government agencies must make rapid and informed decisions in wildfires to safely evacuate people. However, current evacuation simulation tools for resource-strapped agencies largely fail to compare possible transportation responses or incorporate empirical evidence from past wildfires. Consequently, we employ online survey data from evacuees of the 2017 Northern California Wildfires (n=37), the 2017 Southern California Wildfires (n=175), and the 2018 Carr Wildfire (n=254) to inform a policy-oriented traffic evacuation simulation model. We test our simulation for a hypothetical wildfire...

Advanced Air Mobility: Demand Analysis and Market Potential of the Airport Shuttle and Air Taxi Markets

Goyal, Rohit
Reiche, Colleen
Fernando, Chris
Cohen, Adam
2021

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. However, a number of challenges could impact AAM’s growth potential, such as autonomous flight, the availability of take-off and landing infrastructure (i.e., vertiports), integration into airspace and other modes of transportation, and competition with shared automated vehicles. This article discusses the results of a demand analysis examining...

Reimagining the Future of Transportation with Personal Flight: Preparing and Planning for Urban Air Mobility

Cohen, Adam
Guan, Justin
Beamer, Matthew
Dittoe, Ryan
Mokhtarimousavi, Seyedmirsajad
2020

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging concept envisioning a safe, efficient, accessible, quiet, and multi-use air transportation for passenger mobility, cargo delivery, and emergency management within or traversing a metropolitan area. Urban air mobility is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s broader vision for Mobility on Demand (MOD), an innovative transportation concept evolving around connected travelers, where consumers can access mobility and goods delivery services on demand by dispatching or using urban aviation services, courier services, shared automated vehicles,...