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What Can UAM Operators Do to Ensure They Gain Passengers’ Acceptance of Air Taxis?
Communicate, communicate, communicate
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
Commuters expressed their commuting preferences in this study from Hiroshima University
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
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…