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Take Charge! Putting the e in eVTOL
A team of British researchers devise a new method to assess battery power capabilities
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
The agency aims to fuel every mission with data.
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
A quantum leap for UAM routing and scheduling.
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…
A Flight Path to Reducing UAM and Drone Accident Rates in Seoul in 2035
A plan to keep the skies above Seoul safe
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…
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?
Sufficient vertiports strategically placed may be the key
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…