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FLYOHIO VERTIPORT CHALLENGE

By:  Pinky Arunwattanamongkol, Rahul Bhagwat, Ben Dogga, Emily Harvey, Heath Palmer- 2021

"FlyOhio Vertiport Innovation Challenge hosted by the Cincinnati Innovation District ® (CID) in the University of Cincinnati’s 1819 Innovation Hub."

Aerial View of a Drone

VERTIPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE DIAGRAM

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  • Cincinnati downtown and surrounding area

  • Phase 1 with cargo use case

PRIMARY LOCATION #1

Where:
Parking lot in the corner of 5th and Linn street.
Why:
Plenty of room for landing and unloading
Parking available for customers.
Short drive from downtown.
Scalable.

PRIMARY LOCATION #2

Where:

Delhi - Amazon Station DKY4
Service over 90,000 people in the Delhi, Green township, and Hamilton areas.

Where:
May be used by manufacturing and distribution centers in the area.
Nehemiah Manufacturing Company

SECONDARY LOCATION 

Where:
3372 Reading Road
Why:
Easy access to I-71Approximately 50,000 square feet of useable area

MOBILE LOCATION - DELIVERY TRUCK

Workhorse Horsefly
Payload: 0-10 lbs.
Flight time: 25 minutes
Can use to deliver in the remote area

AAM TYPE

Level of autonomy

People will be heavily involved with loading/unloading the VTOLs in these primary phases, but last mile delivery will be autonomous

Charging method

Charging stations will be on each site to plug in when the vehicle is unloading packages. This power will come from Duke Energy's grid

Security system

Use a block chain technology to protect the drone’s routes from hackers, protect customers’ privacy information, track the packages, and verify the receiver. 

MODE OF TRANSPORTATION

Primary vertiports there will be people unloading and loading packages onto the VTOL and onto delivery trucks. 
Secondary locations will also have people unloading the VTOL but most of these packages will be then delivered with smaller VTOLs

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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS

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OUR SERVICE

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•Standard delivery (Less than 2 days)

•Express delivery (Less than 4 hours)

•Confidential Package delivery 

 (Secured package with passcode)

•Heavy package delivery

•Remote area delivery

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Last miles delivery by drone

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Pick up/ drop off at a locker

WHY WOULD THEY PICK OUR SERVICE?

Faster delivery service

  • Reduced paperwork and processing time by block chain technology 

  • Drone delivery is faster than the traditional way of delivery (no traffic etc.)

Secure, trustworthy  & transparency

  • Use a block chain technology to protect the drone’s routes from hackers, protect customers’ privacy information, track the packages, and verify the receiver. 

Accessible

  • Designed the system for NEXT BILLION USERS

  • Inclusivity!!

Varieties of the service for different needs

IMPACT TO OUR COMMUNITY

Create more job opportunities in our community 

  • Drone Programmers

  • Drone traffic Controllers

  • Customer services

  • Drone maintenance team

  • General staffs

  • R&D

  • App developer

  • Sale and Marketing 

(Online Certification program, remote work for person with a disability )

Increase average household income​

Reduce carbon dioxide emission to the environment.

Support local business by providing a faster delivery method at a reasonable price

FUTURE GROWTH

  • Create more primary and secondary vertiports to allow for more efficient handling and to minimize touch points

  • Create a locker system at all the vertiports for individuals to check out their packages once they arrive

  • Ideal for city vertiports where one can walk a few blocks to get their package

  • Making the system become more autonomous

  • Move toward operating on clean energy to have a self-sustainable system on each site

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