Doing the Math: Optimizing Routing and Scheduling for UAM Fleet Management Using Quantum Annealing
Writing in Scientific Reports, seven researchers from Japan’s Tohuku University and Sumitomo Corporation proposed a plan to optimize how urban air mobility (UAM) operators, infrastructure managers, and others in the UAM ecosystem manage routing and scheduling using quantum annealing. Quantum annealing, a quantum computing process, uses quantum fluctuations to find the best solution to an optimization…
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A Flight Path to Reducing UAM and Drone Accident Rates in Seoul in 2035
Writing in the January 2025 issue of Urban Science, Han Yeol Baek of the Department of Architecture at Hannam University, South Korea and Jung Hon Kim of the Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate Studies, Pyeongtaek University South Korea, published their study, “Prediction of Urban Air Mobility and Drone Accident Rates and the Role of…
Read MoreWhat Would a Successful AAM Air Shuttle Network Look?
As discussions evolve around the introduction of advanced air mobility (AAM) into the fabric of global air transportation systems much of the dialogue has centered around the aircraft — electric vertical takeoff and landing, eVTOLs — at the heart of the revolution. But the success of AAM is about much more than aircraft. Three researchers,…
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Who Wants to Fly in an eVTOL and When? The answer may surprise you.
Using metropolitan Milan, Italy as the subject of their January 2025 study to forecast demand for urban air mobility (UAM), Pierluigi Coppola, Francesco De Fabiis, and Fulvio Silvestri, researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano queried more than 2,100 Milaneses. The travel mode choice models factored in individuals’ perceptions of…
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In their research paper, “Novel battery power capability assessment for improved eVTOL aircraft landing,” researchers Ollie Hatherall, Anup Barai, Mona Faraji Niri, and James Marco from the Energy Innovation Centre, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom and Zeyuan Wang from Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd in Bristol, United Kingdom sought to find innovative ways to develop a power testing capability testing framework. They sought…
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