X-TEAM D2D Project: Designing and Validating a Concept of Operations for Door-To-Door Multimodal Transport

Vittorio Di Vito (), Roberto Valentino Montaquila, Giovanni Cerasuolo, Bartosz Dziugieł, Maciej Maczka, Anna Mazur, Peter A. Meincke, Fares Naser, Miguel Mujica Mota, Margarita Bagamanova, Abdel El Makhloufi, Gabriella Duca, Raffaella Russo, Luigi Brucculeri and Stefano Proietti
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Vittorio Di Vito: CIRA, Italian Aerospace Research Center, 81043 Capua, Italy
Roberto Valentino Montaquila: CIRA, Italian Aerospace Research Center, 81043 Capua, Italy
Giovanni Cerasuolo: CIRA, Italian Aerospace Research Center, 81043 Capua, Italy
Bartosz Dziugieł: Łukasiewicz Research Network, Institute of Aviation (ILOT), 02-256 Warsaw, Poland
Maciej Maczka: Łukasiewicz Research Network, Institute of Aviation (ILOT), 02-256 Warsaw, Poland
Anna Mazur: Łukasiewicz Research Network, Institute of Aviation (ILOT), 02-256 Warsaw, Poland
Peter A. Meincke: German Aerospace Center (DLR), 51147 Brunswick, Germany
Fares Naser: German Aerospace Center (DLR), 51147 Brunswick, Germany
Miguel Mujica Mota: Aviation Academy, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, 1091 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Margarita Bagamanova: Aviation Academy, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, 1091 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gabriella Duca: ISSNOVA, Institute for Sustainable Society and Innovation, 80136 Naples, Italy
Raffaella Russo: ISSNOVA, Institute for Sustainable Society and Innovation, 80136 Naples, Italy
Luigi Brucculeri: D-Flight, 00138 Rome, Italy
Stefano Proietti: ISINNOVA, Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems, 00187 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: The project X-TEAM D2D (extended ATM for door-to-door travel) has been funded by SESAR JU in the framework of the research activities devoted to the investigation of integration of Air Traffic Management (ATM) and aviation into a wider transport system able to support the implementation of the door-to-door (D2D) travel concept. The project defines a concept for the seamless integration of ATM and Air Transport into an intermodal network, including other available transportation means, such as surface and waterways, to contribute to the 4 h door-to-door connectivity targeted by the European Commission in the ACARE SRIA FlightPath 2050 goals. In particular, the project focused on the design of a concept of operations for urban and extended urban (up to regional) integrated mobility, taking into account the evolution of transportation and passengers service scenarios for the next decades, according to baseline (2025), intermediate (2035) and final target (2050) time horizons. The designed ConOps encompassed both the transportation platforms integration concepts and the innovative seamless Mobility as a Service, integrating emerging technologies, such as Urban Air Mobility (e.g., electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles) and new mobility forms (e.g., micromobility vehicles) into the intermodal traffic network, including Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM). The developed concept has been evaluated against existing KPAs and KPIs, implementing both qualitative and quantitative performance assessment approaches, while also considering specific performance metrics related to transport integration efficiency from the passenger point of view, being the proposed solution designed to be centered around the passenger needs. The aim of this paper is to provide a description of the activities carried out in the project and to present at high level the related outcomes.

Keywords: multimodality; air traffic management (ATM); door-to-door (D2D) operations; urban air mobility (UAM); U-space; concept of operations (ConOps); intermodal transport; passenger experience; surface transport; simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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