TY  - JOUR
A1  - Laarmann, Lukas
A1  - Thoma, Andreas
A1  - Misch, Philipp
A1  - Röth, Thilo
A1  - Braun, Carsten
A1  - Watkins, Simon
A1  - Fard, Mohammad
T1  - Automotive safety approach for future eVTOL vehicles
JF  - CEAS Aeronautical Journal
N2  - The eVTOL industry is a rapidly growing mass market expected to start in 2024. eVTOL compete, caused by their predicted missions, with ground-based transportation modes, including  mainly passenger cars. Therefore, the automotive and classical aircraft design process is reviewed and compared to highlight advantages for eVTOL development. A special focus is on ergonomic comfort and safety. The need for further investigation of eVTOL’s crashworthiness is outlined by, first, specifying the relevance of passive safety via accident statistics and customer perception analysis; second, comparing the current state of regulation and certification; and third, discussing the advantages of integral safety and applying the automotive safety approach for eVTOL development. Integral safety links active and passive safety, while the automotive safety approach means implementing standardized mandatory full-vehicle crash tests for future eVTOL. Subsequently, possible crash impact conditions are analyzed, and three full-vehicle crash load cases are presented.
KW  - eVTOL development
KW  - eVTOL safety
KW  - Crashworthiness
KW  - Automotive safety approach
KW  - Full-vehicle crash test
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13272-023-00655-0
SN  - 1869-5590 (Online)
SN  - 1869-5582 (Print)
N1  - Corresponding author: Lukas Laarmann
PB  - Springer Nature
ER  -