Research

Yellow trolley in front of colorful urban homes.

Does the Public Really Want Air Taxis?

Evtols? UAVs? UAM? Tell Us How You Really Feel . . . 

People have wildly different views on the future of urban air mobility (UAM). Policymakers and transport operators need to pay attention.

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Black and white photo of the first commercial airline flight.

UAM: If We Build It, Will You Come? Will You Pay?

It Depends.

The technology behind air taxis may be ahead of people’s willingness to use them.

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Illustration of a future droneport.

What Is a Droneport?

Airport. √ Vertiport. √ Droneport? Stay tuned.

You’ve heard of airports. Society will soon be hearing more about droneports.

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An illustration showing an AAM simulation environment.

An Advanced Simulation for Implementation of Advanced Air Mobility

Working together, scientists from three countries plan a future for Advanced Air Mobility

Working together to hasten the safe introduction and integration of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) into the national airspaces of countries around the globe, a group of researchers from Cranfield University, Boeing Research and Technology—Europe, ANRA Technologies, Airbus-Unmanned Traffic Management, Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre, Ineco, and NTT Data, published an article, “The Development of an Advanced…

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Illustration of a red city bus at the base of a vertiport with an air taxi on top of it.

Vertiport, Vertiport, Wherefore Shall I Integrate You?

Using a GIS-Based Approach to Suss Out Suitable Vertiport Locations

Much of the discussion surrounding the integration of urban/advanced air mobility (UAM/AAM) has focused on how best to accommodate this new transportation mode into the National Air Space (NAS) of any given nation-state (such as the United States) or a supranational union of states (such as the European Union). But, to date, little consideration has…

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black and yellow evtols parked on top a veriport

eVTOL Batteries: Advanced Machine Learning for AAM

Delft University Researchers Provide UAM Operators a Prognostics Tool for Battery Life

If you use your mobile phone frequently, when the remaining battery life reaches 20%, the battery indicator icon in the upper right of the screen turns red. But if you’re operating your eVTOL the way many passenger-carrying operators expect to – lots of takeoffs and landings throughout the day, ferrying passengers from airports to downtown…

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