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Is UAM Better Together? The Potential and Promise of Ridesharing
NASA and Purdue University Associates Unveil PANVEL
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…
Not Just Advanced Air Mobility, But Seamless Air Mobility
NASA engineers a solution to provide AAM for all
From a horse to a chariot, wagons to trains, cars to buses and airplanes, our transportation systems have evolved over millennia but rarely with any thought given to how we, as passengers, must navigate any or several of these systems to get us from Point A to Point B. NASA engineers and specialists Husni Idris,…
Is Your Country Ready for Urban Air Mobility?
A Mobility as a Service Index Aims to Tell You How You Can Tell
Aviation engineers, manufacturers, urban planners, vertiport builders and operators, and regulators are rapidly approaching the day when eVTOLs will take to the skies, passengers in tow, ready to taxi them from airports to city centers and back or from a city’s south side to its north or the suburbs surrounding a metropolis. But, one key…
Merchandise Delivery in the Middle — Mile, That Is
Cargo delivery in rural areas may soon see fewer trucks and more drones
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?
A trio of German researchers show you how to optimize your operational and configurational fleet decisions
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…
Can Your Drone Fly Like a Cat?
No, but it may soon see like a cat
There is a centuries-old idiom in English culture adapted from a Scottish proverb: “When pigs fly.” It’s meant to express doubt about an individual’s ability or willingness to complete a task. For example, “I’ll have all my chores done in an hour,” a child declares to his parent. The parent replies, somewhat sarcastically, “I’ll believe…