Urban air mobility is an effective solution to address the current issue of ground traffic congestion in future cities. However, as the user scale continues to expand, the current civil aviation flight scheduling and control methods are becoming inad...
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) constitutes a future aerial mobility alternative, which concerns the use of electric and autonomous aerial vehicles for transporting people throughout a planned network of vertiports. To materialize UAM, several actors of the...
Urban air mobility is expected to play a role in improving transportation of people and goods in growing urban areas while contributing to sustainable urban growth and zero-emissions future aviation. The research presented herein computationally inve...
One of the primary challenges facing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and the safe integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the urban airspace is the availability of robust, reliable navigation and Sense-and-Avoid (SAA) systems. Global Navigation Sa...
Over the past few years, our traditional ground-based transportation system has encountered various challenges, including overuse, traffic congestion, growing urban populations, high infrastructure costs, and disorganization. Unmanned aerial vehicles...
This study shows a comprehensive simulation to assess and enhance the throughput capacity of unmanned air system vertiports, one of the most essential elements of urban air mobility ecosystems. The framework integrates dynamic grid-based spatial mana...
Urban air mobility is a rapidly growing field of research. While drones or unmanned aerial vehicles have been operated mainly in the private and military sector in the past, an increasing range of opportunities is opening up for commercial applicatio...
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Various countries are preparing for the introduction of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles, which move freely within the space above a city, as a new means of urban transportation. However, UAM vehicles present new forms of challenges to many urban re...
This paper treats the lockdown of Hubei Province during the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 as a quasi-experiment, and uses the prefecture-level data of 328 cities in China to identify the causal effects of population mobility and urban air qualit...
In about 15 years, there is likely to be urban air mobility (UAM) in larger cities across the globe. Air taxis will provide on-demand transportation for individual needs. They will also connect important transportation nodes, such as airports and cit...
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a transformative mode of air transportation system technology that is targeted to carry passengers and goods in and around urban areas using electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. UAM operations are inten...
Driven by recent technological breakthroughs, the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has gained considerable attention. The widespread demand for eVTOL aircraft can be attributed to their potential use in the commercialisation of...
Advanced and Urban Air Mobility (AAM and UAM) represent emerging transportation concepts that involve the use of novel aircraft technologies to transport passengers and cargo within urban, regional, and intra-regional environments. These systems may...
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a revolutionary approach to transportation in densely populated cities. UAM involves using small, highly automated aircraft to transport passengers and goods at lower altitudes within urban and suburban areas, aiming to tr...
The safety-critical functions of autonomous drones heavily rely on Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) information provided by Global Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSSs). This makes GNSS technology a critical element as the PNT solution can be...
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a promising transportation concept that can effectively address city traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Power batteries are used extensively in UAM vehicles, and their technical characteristics (charge rate an...
From a mobility rationale, advanced air mobility (AAM) and/or urban air mobility (UAM) claims a reduction in travel time with integration into intermodal transportation networks and a reduction in ground traffic congestion due to the current modal sh...
Recently, urban air mobility (UAM), a new transportation system that can expand urban mobility from 2D to 3D, has been in the spotlight all over the world. For successful implementation of UAM, not only eVTOL aircraft development but also various sys...
This paper describes a concept for local GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) augmentation derived from the established Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) in civil aviation. The aim of this concept is to provide reliable and accurate GNSS m...
This paper examines developments in urban air mobility (UAM), the configurations and flight mechanisms of different aerial vehicles. Despite the interest generated around UAM, there seems to be a gap in the literature concerning a systematic comparat...
This paper presents a review of the main trends in the urban air mobility (UAM) sector. After an initial introduction to the key aspects driving the design of aircraft for this type of application and the main characteristics of each type of aircraft...
The current global context demands the development of new solutions that prioritize energy efficiency, time optimization, safety, and sustainability. Urban transportation is one of the sectors undergoing significant transformation. Pursuing new urban...
The expansion of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has led to diverse aircraft designs, with piloted systems expected to evolve into remotely piloted and automated operations. Future advancements in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) will further impro...
Air pollution is one of the major problems in today’s urban areas. With increasing development and the need for the transport of goods and people, it has become imperative to seek sustainable urban mobility solutions. The impact of restrictive...
The continuous development of technical innovations provides the opportunity to create new economic markets and a wealth of new services. However, these innovations sometimes raise concerns, notably in terms of societal, safety, and environmental imp...
The impact of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 on air pollution in our cities is a proven fact, although its mechanisms are not known in detail. The change in urban mobility patterns due to the restrictions imposed on the population during lockdown is...
The United Nations has long put on the discussion agenda the sustainability challenges of urbanization, which have both direct and indirect effects on future regulation strategies. Undoubtedly, most initiatives target better quality of life, improved...
Vertiports, as dedicated facilities for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, are essential to ensure the efficiency and sustainability of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). However, UAM infrastructure site selection has become increasingly...
A rising number of aerospace manufacturers are working on the development of new solutions in the field of Urban Air Mobility with increasing attention addressing electric and hybrid electric propulsive systems. Hybrid electric propulsive systems pot...
This paper proposes a framework for accurately estimating the state-of-charge (SOC) and current sensor bias, with the aim of integrating it into urban air mobility (UAM) with hybrid propulsion. Considering the heightened safety concerns in an airborn...
Urban air mobility requires safe and efficient airspace management, as well as effective path planning and decision-making capabilities to enable access to the urban airspace, which is predicted to be very densely populated. This paper tackles the pr...
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize urban transportation, largely with the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. After an initial stage focused on technology requirements, research is now shi...
The vigorous development of urban air mobility (UAM) is reshaping the urban travel landscape, but it also poses severe challenges to the safe and efficient operation of dense and complex airspace. Potential conflicts between flight plans have become...
This article investigates viable solutions to implement an Urban Air Mobility network in Milan, Italy, and analyzes its influence on the airspace capacity. The network comprises eight vertiports for passenger transport among two main airports in the...
Urban air mobility (UAM) and drones can significantly improve traffic movement in saturated cities because the skies above them are not frequently used; furthermore, they do not require large-scale infrastructure, like roads and subways do. Thus, UAM...
Urban air mobility (UAM) is expected to provide environmental benefits while enhancing transportation for citizens and businesses, particularly in commercial and emergency medical applications. The rapid development of electric vertical take-off and...
Urban air mobility (UAM) has recently emerged as a promising new transportation mode, with various potential use cases. Facility location problems are well studied and of significant importance for various transportation modes. This work introduces a...
Vertiports, as the foundational ground infrastructure for Urban Air Mobility (UAM), have garnered increasing scholarly attention in recent years. To examine how the existing literature has reviewed and summarized vertiport-related knowledge, this stu...
The present investigation addresses the topic of Urban Air Mobility with particular reference to the air-taxi service with electrified power systems. A new and detailed methodology is proposed for the simplified design and energy analysis of conventi...
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has high potential as an ecofriendly transportation mode that can alleviate traffic congestion on the ground and reduce travel times by utilizing three-dimensional airspace. However, efficient vertiport operational plans are...
The deployment of urban air mobility in built-out metropolitan regions is constrained by infrastructure opportunities, land use, and airspace zoning designations. Meanwhile, the availability and spatial distribution of infrastructure opportunities in...
Urban Air Mobility is a novel concept of transportation with unknown market potential. Even in conservative estimates, thousands of operations could be expected on a single vertiport. This exceeds known heliport operations, which is the most comparab...
Electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles introduce challenges in powertrain design with short but high peak loads and low-load phases over longer periods of time during wing-borne flight. In this paper, three powertrain topologies are analyzed...
As urban populations expand and congestion intensifies, traditional ground transportation struggles to satisfy escalating mobility demands. Unmanned Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, as a key enabler of Urban Air Mobility (UAM)...
As urban population concentration accelerates, issues such as traffic congestion caused by automobiles and climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions are becoming increasingly severe. Recently, urban air mobility (UAM) has been attracting attenti...
As the value and importance of urban air mobility (UAM) are being recognized, there is growing attention towards UAM. To ensure that urban air traffic can serve passengers to the greatest extent while ensuring safety and generating revenue, there is...
The use of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for civil, scientific, and military operations, is constantly increasing, particularly in environments very dangerous or impossible for human actions. Many tasks are cur...
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging industry marked by technological advancements, new operational contexts, and regulatory frameworks. This article examines how to improve safety management in UAM operations by adopting a just culture approach f...
Airport-bound access and egress trips comprise a significant portion of total ground transportation trips, especially in regions served by large airports. Connecting urban areas with airports under minimal travel delays can be challenging, with traff...
The dynamic behavior and thermal performance of a high-power, high-energy-density lithium-ion battery for urban air mobility (UAM) applications were analyzed by using an electro-thermal model. To simulate the behavior of pouch-type nickel-cobalt-mang...
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