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The Key to Successful Adoption of Urban Air Mobility Services May Be on the Ground
Incentivizing commuters to commute -- by air
In the same way people choose where to live based on a home’s proximity to a freeway, autobahn, or public transportation to best facilitate their daily commute, Ying Zhao and Tao Feng, researchers with the Urban and Data Science Lab, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering at Hiroshima University, Japan conducted the study, “Commuter…
Who Wants to Fly in an eVTOL and When? The answer may surprise you.
Using metropolitan Milan, Italy as the subject of their January 2025 study to forecast demand for urban air mobility (UAM), Pierluigi Coppola, Francesco De Fabiis, and Fulvio Silvestri, researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano queried more than 2,100 Milaneses. The travel mode choice models factored in individuals’ perceptions of…
Vertical Flight Society Bay Area Chapter’s First Meeting of 2025
I was delighted to have had the opportunity to attend the Vertical Flight Society Bay Area Chapter’s first meeting of 2025 at the Hiller Aviation Museum where, among other fascinating things, I got to see Airbus’s Vahana, the aviation giant’s entry into the eVTOL market.
Who Wants to Fly in an eVTOL, Where, and When? The answer may surprise you.
Using metropolitan Milan, Italy as the subject of their January 2025 study to forecast demand for urban air mobility (UAM), Pierluigi Coppola, Francesco De Fabiis, and Fulvio Silvestri, researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano queried more than 2,100 Milaneses. The travel mode choice models factored in individuals’ perceptions of…
Urban Air Mobility May Require a Complete Rethink of How We Design Airspace
Much of the airspace design concepts being considered for urban air mobility (UAM) today are considered as abstract networks emphasizing safety and capacity. That’s a good thing – as far as it goes – according to Aleksandar Bauranov, a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and Dr. Jasenka Rakas, a Continuing Lecturer of Civil and…
It Takes Two to Advance Advanced Air Mobility
The role of digital twins in certifying AAM systems
A team of researchers from the U.S.’s Purdue University and the U.K.’s Coventry University recently published a study wherein they propose creating a digital twin for various aspects of the emerging advanced air mobility (AAM) ecosystem well under development today. Designers from Purdue’s Human Factors team CAE (computer-aided engineering) team and subject matter experts (SMEs)…