Join the MAIA second stakeholder workshop on March 12 in Madrid to discover the 3 tools developed by the MAIA partners to enhance the experience of air passengers with multimodal transport innovations including autonomous shuttles and urban air mobility services!
Time: 10:00-16:00 CET
Location: IBERCENTER, Plaza Carlos Trias Bertran, 4, 28020, Madrid. (https://maps.app.goo.gl/k4tmHR6qafhi959m8) & Online
MAIA aims at improving airports’ accessibility and operational efficiency with the use of transport innovations, based on autonomous shuttles and electric vertical take off and landing aircrafts (eVTOLs). To this end, the project has developed three main tools to be exploited and further enhanced beyond the project lifetime: MAIA-ENGINE, MAIA-CCAM, and MAIA-UAM.
MAIA-ENGINE relies on a data inventory and algorithms to predict air passenger behaviour and to model airport access demand.
MAIA-CCAM uses a scenario-approach to develop algorithms supporting smart dispatching of a Shared Autonomous Vehicles fleet, able to mitigate disruptions.
MAIA-UAM also uses a scenario approach defined with external stakeholders to develop algorithms evaluating different potential locations for vertiport installation within airports.
MAIA-ENGINE has been used with aggregated data about passengers in the Madrid and Brussels airports, providing inputs for the development of both MAIA-CCAM and MAIA-UAM algorithms.
In Madrid, MAIA-ENGINE has been used to define passenger profiles, exploiting mobile phone data to reconstruct trips to the airport. A prediction of demand for airport access services was done to identify which areas are more likely to generate trips with Shared Autonomous Vehicles. In this case study, vertiport locations are primarily concentrated in business zones within urban areas.
In Brussels, a passenger synthetic population was prepared based on survey data from the Brussels Airport to extract information on trips to the airport, enabling the modelling of demand for airport access services. However, data was lacking to obtain a prediction of airport access demand. Therefore, only theoretical inputs from MAIA-ENGINE were used to develop a basic fleet simulation within MAIA-CCAM, including disruption expectations. MAIA-UAM has used this input to define the best location of vertiports in cities near Brussels Airport, focusing on intercity connection rather than connections between the airport and the city center of Brussels exclusively.
The methodology followed in these developments and tests will be presented at the workshop, together with an overview of the results and how they can support the improvement of airport operations and accessibility, making it more efficient and reducing environmental impacts.
We call on all interested stakeholders to participate in the MAIA tools’ improvement, including airports, airlines, passenger representatives, shuttle operators, autonomous vehicle operators, drone operators, vertiport operators, regions with an airport on their territory, and more. We need your feedback!
Date: March 12, 2025 from 10:00 to 16:00 CET, incl. lunch break
Address: IBERCENTER, Pl. de Carlos Trías Bertrán, 4, Tetuán, 28020 Madrid, Spain
10:00 Introduction to the workshop
10:15 Presentation of the MAIA project and tools (MAIA-ENGINE, MAIA-CCAM, MAIA-UAM)
11:00 Presentation of the BRUSSELS use case and discussion of the relevance of and outcomes from each tool
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Presentation of the MADRID use case and discussion of the relevance of and outcomes from each tool
15:00 Conclusion of the workshop and plans for results exploitation beyond the project lifetime
16:00 End of workshop
Mark your calendars for 4 December in Brussels, where stakeholders will gather at the POLIS Network offices to explore the future of airport access and passenger mobility during the first MAIA Workshop.
The first MAIA workshop is a stakeholder workshop — participants will dive deep into identifying airport access challenges and the role of mobility innovations in solving them. During this event, case studies will be defined and a dynamic exchange of ideas will be encouraged.
The MAIA partners will present the results of their first investigations in terms of airport accessibility state of the art. In the last months, they have appiled spatial analytics techniques to open data sources (e.g., Open Street Maps, GTFS feeds, etc.) to analyse current accessibility conditions in a variety of European airports. This analysis is now being enriched with desk research on the planned interventions for improving accessibility. The research includes a Delphi poll engaging experts from the External Experts Advisory Board and beyond. In the first round, experts are asked for completing and ranking the challenges identified in the previous research. The second round will happen after the workshop to confirm or infirm views shared in the first round.
During the workshop, the MAIA consortium will expose challenges observed and needs for improvement, as well as best practices and potential for collaborative learning. The audience will dive into sustainability aspects, as well as smart connections and user-friendliness.
This workshop is not exclusive to the MAIA’s stakeholder engagement group; the project does indeed extend an invitation to external experts who share their passion for redefining airport access and passenger mobility.
Save the date, Register, and Prepare to come along on this journey to reshape the future of airport access. Your insights and contributions will be invaluable in navigating the path forward.
Time: December 4, 10:30-16:00 CET
Place: POLIS office, Rue du Trône 98, 1050 Brussels
Agenda:
| Start time | End time | Topic |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | 0- Welcome |
| 10:45 | 11:15 | 1- MAIA Introduction |
| 11:15 | 12:45 | 2- Challenges for airport accessibility |
| 12:45 | 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | 3- The role of connected autonomous vehicles and Urban Air Mobility in airport accessibility |
| 15:00 | 15:45 | 4- Workshop wrap-up |