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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,387 Views
17 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,696 Views
18 Pages

A New Mobility Era: Stakeholders’ Insights regarding Urban Air Mobility

  • Annitsa Koumoutsidi,
  • Ioanna Pagoni and
  • Amalia Polydoropoulou

7 March 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,302 Views
26 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,957 Views
23 Pages

GNSS Performance Modelling and Augmentation for Urban Air Mobility

  • Suraj Bijjahalli,
  • Roberto Sabatini and
  • Alessandro Gardi

27 September 2019

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,066 Views
28 Pages

24 November 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,577 Views
15 Pages

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,233 Views
24 Pages

Air Traffic Management as a Vital Part of Urban Air Mobility—A Review of DLR’s Research Work from 1995 to 2022

  • Bianca I. Schuchardt,
  • Dagi Geister,
  • Thomas Lüken,
  • Franz Knabe,
  • Isabel C. Metz,
  • Niklas Peinecke and
  • Karolin Schweiger

14 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,299 Views
11 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,894 Views
19 Pages

27 July 2023

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...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,833 Views
11 Pages

19 April 2020

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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,267 Views
24 Pages

9 April 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,333 Views
22 Pages

Preliminary Concept of Urban Air Mobility Traffic Rules

  • Wenqiu Qu,
  • Chenchen Xu,
  • Xiang Tan,
  • Anqi Tang,
  • Hongbo He and
  • Xiaohan Liao

12 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
485 Views
29 Pages

Demand Assessment and Integration Feasibility Analysis for Advanced and Urban Air Mobility in Illinois

  • Vasileios Volakakis,
  • Christopher Cummings,
  • Laurence Audenaerd,
  • William M. Viste and
  • Hani S. Mahmassani

8 November 2025

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,402 Views
32 Pages

Urban Air Mobility for Last-Mile Transportation: A Review

  • Nima Moradi,
  • Chun Wang and
  • Fereshteh Mafakheri

12 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
920 Views
27 Pages

GNSS Threat Simulator for Urban Air Mobility Scenarios

  • Gianluca Corraro,
  • Ivan Iudice,
  • Giovanni Cuciniello,
  • Umberto Ciniglio and
  • Domenico Pascarella

30 August 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,416 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of Battery Performance on Urban Air Mobility Operations

  • Xiaotao Qiao,
  • Guotao Chen,
  • Weichao Lin and
  • Jun Zhou

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,013 Views
14 Pages

7 December 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,593 Views
21 Pages

27 December 2022

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...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,445 Views
9 Pages

29 October 2023

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,954 Views
43 Pages

A Survey of the Effects of Vehicle Configuration on Urban Air Mobility

  • Shahin Darvishpoor,
  • Jafar Roshanian,
  • Ali Mesbah,
  • Kamyar Haghighi,
  • Benyamin Ebrahimi,
  • Vladimir Serbezov and
  • Krasin Georgiev

14 March 2025

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,150 Views
29 Pages

Emerging Trends in Urban Air Mobility: An Extensive Review

  • Francesco Tripaldi,
  • Stefano Vianello and
  • Nicola Bianchi

13 March 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
938 Views
22 Pages

Design of Experiments Approach for Structural Optimization of Urban Air Mobility Vehicles

  • Marco Claudio De Simone,
  • Salvio Veneziano,
  • Alessia Porcaro and
  • Domenico Guida

3 April 2025

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,858 Views
33 Pages

Urban Air Mobility Aircraft Operations in Urban Environments: A Review of Potential Safety Risks

  • Chananya Charnsethikul,
  • Jose M. Silva,
  • Wim J. C. Verhagen and
  • Raj Das

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,724 Views
21 Pages

Air Pollution Modeling for Sustainable Urban Mobility with COVID-19 Impact Analysis: Case Study of Skopje

  • Mladen Miletić,
  • Edouard Ivanjko,
  • Tomislav Fratrović and
  • Borna Abramović

11 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,731 Views
19 Pages

Implementing Mitigations for Improving Societal Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility

  • Ender Çetin,
  • Alicia Cano,
  • Robin Deransy,
  • Sergi Tres and
  • Cristina Barrado

18 January 2022

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...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,843 Views
6 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,027 Views
15 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,961 Views
34 Pages

10 August 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,806 Views
20 Pages

Improving the Dynamic Behavior of a Hybrid Electric Rotorcraft for Urban Air Mobility

  • Teresa Donateo,
  • Ludovica Spada Chiodo,
  • Antonio Ficarella and
  • Andrea Lunaro

14 October 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,399 Views
17 Pages

State-of-Charge Estimation of Batteries for Hybrid Urban Air Mobility

  • Min Young Yoo,
  • Jung Heon Lee,
  • Joo-Ho Choi,
  • Jae Sung Huh and
  • Woosuk Sung

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,589 Views
18 Pages

24 December 2022

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,396 Views
27 Pages

Mapping the Integration of Urban Air Mobility into the Built Environment: A Bibliometric Analysis and a Scoping Review

  • Ludovica Maria Campagna,
  • Francesco Carlucci,
  • Francesco Fiorito,
  • Erika Rosella Marinelli,
  • Michele Ottomanelli and
  • Mario Marinelli

10 October 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,290 Views
29 Pages

Optimization of Flight Scheduling in Urban Air Mobility Considering Spatiotemporal Uncertainties

  • Lingzhong Meng,
  • Minggong Wu,
  • Xiangxi Wen,
  • Zhichong Zhou and
  • Qingguo Tian

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,794 Views
18 Pages

Fast-Time Simulations to Study the Capacity of a Traffic Network Aimed at Urban Air Mobility

  • Paola Di Mascio,
  • Matteo Celesti,
  • Matteo Sabatini and
  • Laura Moretti

5 November 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,986 Views
17 Pages

23 January 2025

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,965 Views
24 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,323 Views
39 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,379 Views
30 Pages

12 October 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,338 Views
23 Pages

17 January 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,729 Views
23 Pages

30 May 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,962 Views
19 Pages

5 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,593 Views
17 Pages

19 July 2022

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...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
548 Views
11 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,575 Views
27 Pages

18 June 2025

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)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,278 Views
12 Pages

20 September 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,455 Views
23 Pages

20 October 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,258 Views
18 Pages

Ground Control System for UAS Safe Landing Area Determination (SLAD) in Urban Air Mobility Operations

  • Gennaro Ariante,
  • Salvatore Ponte,
  • Umberto Papa,
  • Alberto Greco and
  • Giuseppe Del Core

22 April 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,104 Views
28 Pages

17 May 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,980 Views
25 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,815 Views
13 Pages

21 September 2023

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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