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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…
What Would a Successful AAM Air Shuttle Network Look?
Sufficient vertiports strategically placed are the key
As discussions evolve around the introduction of advanced air mobility (AAM) into the fabric of global air transportation systems 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 than aircraft. Three researchers,…
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…
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…
How High Can AAM Go with AI?
EASA’s EUROCONTROL shows us 6 ways Human-AI teaming could take flight.
The potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to board tomorrow’s aircraft, partner with humans, and propel the aviation industry to new heights is a tantalizing proposition. Aviation + AI has the potential to reduce costly delays and shrink the industry’s carbon footprint while enhancing safety in the cockpit, facilitating single pilot operations, and managing what promises…