The Latest Advanced Air Mobility News
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?
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…
Merchandise Delivery in the Middle — Mile, That Is
Writing in Sustainability, Dr. Raj Bridgelall, an associate professor of transportation and supply chain at North Dakota State University, published the results of his study, Spatial Analysis of Middle-Mile Transport for Advanced Air Mobility: A Case Study of Rural North Dakota. The study’s objective, Dr. Bridgelall writes, was to “optimize the logistics network for high-value…
Want to Upgrade Your Urban Air Mobility Fleet’s Cost-efficiency?
Michael Husemann, a senior expert global footprint with battery manufacturer PowerCo, Ansgar Kirste,director of product management for Robert Bosch, and Elke Stumpf, a journalist have done what others have not done to date. The trio devised a model UAM optimization model to better evaluate fleet operations in order to make smart strategic choices about vehicle…
