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Urban Planners: Consider This Urban Air Mobility Geospatial Decision-Support Tool to Help Decide Where Advanced Air Mobility Operators and Regulators Should Build Drone Ports
Earlier in 2024, a team of scientists from Aalto University and the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute conducted a study which, they hoped, might bring some clarity and guidance regarding where best to locate drone ports. They limited their study to uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) whose diameter was less than 3 meters. The team, Miloš N….
Power Zone: Vertiports Will Need to Amp Up Their Electric Grids
For advanced air mobility (AAM) to advance rapidly, these facilities will need the ability to provide electricity, perhaps in the form of microgrids, to facilitate rapid, easily accessible charging.
Size Matters: Optimizing Your Advanced Air Mobility Air Taxi Fleet to Meet Scheduling and Traffic Demands
Dresden Researchers Show How to Optimize AAM Fleet Management
A Dozen (Trips) a Day x Optimal Travel Routes = Profitability for AAM Operators
Building Better eVTOL Batteries for UAM
Two Salts are Better Than One
through 500 cycles, theGen-2 system displayed signs of polarization and capacity loss, particularly during high-rate hover and descent phases of operations. By comparison, the dual-salt electrolyte system was stable retaining capacity and exhibiting low polarization potentials through the flight cycle.
Supercharged: Do Your eVTOL Batteries Have What It Takes – to Land Safely?
Old cells, new cells, cold weather, warm weather, pulse power
A novel approach to battery capacity testing and management to yield better performance and safer operations for eVTOL operations.