The Latest Advanced Air Mobility News

What Can UAM Operators Do to Ensure They Gain Passengers’ Acceptance of Air Taxis?

A study conducted by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) reveals what is and isn’t important to gain passengers’ acceptance of urban air mobility (UAM) air taxi services. While the flights were simulated, the sentiments expressed were real. The researchers set up a mixed reality (MR) Air Taxi Simulator merging a real-world environment with a computer-generated…

Give the People What They Want — Integrated Air Mobility-as-a-Service

As urban air mobility prepares for takeoff in cities around the world, it’s important to understand that this new iteration of the transportation landscape doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The people who will use the services will need to understand how to integrate it into their travel plans. To learn more about these consumers’ preferences,…

Take Charge! Putting the e in eVTOL

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…

The U.S. Space Force Launches Its AI Initiative

Declaring “Never a day Without Data,” the U.S. Space Force published its Data & Artificial Intelligence Strategic Action Plan for Fiscal Year 2025. The Space Force explained it needs to emphasize AI literacy to employ these tools to solve operational challenges. The plan lays out four key objectives for the agency. Mature enterprise-wide data and AI…

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…

Vertiports vs. Heliports — An overview

Emily Lambert, a project manager with Texas Department of Transportation recently published a guide that will be of interest and use to DOT engineers and planners as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) transitions from a standalone Vertiport Design Advisory Circular to a Unified Vertical Lift Infrastructures AC by 2027. Find the guide here.

What Would a Successful AAM Air Shuttle Network Look Like?

As discussions evolve around the impending introduction of advanced air mobility (AAM) into the fabric of global air transportation systems around the globe 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…

What 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,…

Is UAM Better Together? The Potential and Promise of Ridesharing

While no one knows yet exactly how much an urban air mobility (UAM) eEVTOL air taxi ride will cost per mile, chances are the initial trips won’t be cheap. And, not cheap doesn’t bode well for rapid adoption by the traveling public. But… if a cohort of passengers want to travel from the same origin-destination…

AAM’s New Gig: The Highs and Lows of Drones in Sportscasting

If you’re a fan of American football or baseball, soccer, F1 or NASCAR racing, you’re probably familiar with the aerial videography blimps and helicopters bring to your viewing experience. But, increasingly, there’s a new bird in the sky above the stadiums and racetracks around the globe: a video camera-equipped drone. What the blimp or helicopter…

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