The Latest Advanced Air Mobility News

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…

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…

The Temperature’s Falling While the UAM Market Is Heating Up

At the heart of the impending urban air mobility (UAM) revolution are the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that will rise to the occasion to transport people and products from Point A to Point B. At the heart of those eVTOLs are the lithium-ion batteries powering their flight. Lithium-ion batteries, however, have an…

Getting Together – UAMs and NAS

Writing in the Texas A&M Law Arguendo, Robert Notari, a Juris Doctor candidate, helicopter pilot, and certified flight instructor, raises the questions “AUTONOMY NOW?: IS IT TIME TO START INTEGRATING (AUTONOMOUS) URBAN AIR MOBILITY VEHICLES INTO THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM?” Inasmuch as auto manufacturers have yet to master autonomous-driving vehicles, it may be premature to ask…

The Upside of Dispensing with Downwash

While exhibiting at the Avalon International Airshow in Melbourne, Skyportz, the Australian developer of ground-based infrastructure for the impending advanced air mobility (AAM) revolution, revealed its innovative vertipad design which mitigates eVTOL downwash and outwash. A study conducted by Professor Justin Leontini of the Department of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering at Swinburne University of…

Swatting Down Drone Swarms

Advanced vehicular capabilities combined with a significant reduction in the cost of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka drones, have created a dangerous and difficult-to-counter military menace. Writing in the Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, Matthieu J. Guitton, a faculty member at Université Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, provides a summary of the nature of…

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…

So, You Want to Build a Vertiport. Here’s What It Will Cost to Build and Operate One

Whether for passenger transportation, package delivery, emergency services, military, civil defense missions, industrial, or agricultural purposes, the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) transportation sector in development will need departure and arrival facilities for the aircraft operating in this space. According to a report entitled “The global vertiport market map and forecast 2024–2028,” compiled by the Global AAM/UAM…

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,…

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