主讲人：Bo Zou

邀请人：谢驰 教授

时间：2024年10月15日（周二）下午15:00-17:00

地点：通达馆103会议室

主讲人简介：

Bo Zou is an associate professor in the department of civil, materials, and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. Recently he was also a visiting associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on technology innovations in transportation systems, including Advanced Air Mobility and freight logistics. His research has been funded by a number of agencies including the US National Science Foundation and NASA. Currently, he is Director of Technology Transfer and Commercialization of the Center for Freight Transportation for Efficient and Resilient Supply Chain, funded by the US Department of Transportation. Prof. Zou serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Air Transport Management and Transportation Letters, and is an editorial board member of Transportation Research Part B, C, and E, and Transport Policy. Prof. Zou received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Master of Science and Bachelor of Engineering from Tsinghua University, and Diplôme d’Ingénieur from Ecole Centrale Nantes in France.

主讲内容简介：

The rise of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) has opened up the possibility of using electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) for package delivery in metropolitan areas. However, there is a lack of understanding about the suitability and operation of an eVTOL-based package delivery system. In this talk, we will discuss our recent study on the economic, energy, and climate impacts of using eVTOLs for package delivery. We propose a two-leg system design that uses an integer programming model to specify eVTOL and ground vehicle types, their cost economics, and their energy use and CO2 emission characteristics. I will also present an operational planning framework for eVTOL-based package delivery to be both economically efficient and community friendly, in terms of the noise impact of eVTOL operations on people surrounding vertiports. We implement the models in the Chicago metro region and find that the attractiveness of eVTOL-based package delivery depends on various factors such as eVTOL and ground vehicle choices and key system inputs. Numerical results also reveal the cost-noise trade-off and other operational insights about eVTOL-based package delivery.

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