Urban Air Mobility

(Don’t) Make Some Noise

Drone package delivery has its pluses and minuses.

By quantifying the shipping costs and community noise impact, a study from the University of Illinois Chicago revealed several operational insights pertaining to the adoption of drone package delivery.

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Meet Clem Newton-Brown, CEO of Australia’s Skyportz

A Q&A with an Aussie AAM Leader

“The whole industry is waiting on certified aircraft and it has been a long 5 years but it seems we are close. Raising funds for an industry with no product yet is challenging but we run a lean operation and have loyal investors who will provide as much runway as we need.” — Skyportz CEO, Clem Newton-Brown.

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Illustration of a soon-to-built vertiport by Skyportz Australia

Your AAM Vehicle Is Waiting at The Vertiport. Should You Board?

A systemic risk analysis seeks to discover the potential dangers passengers will face when their vertiport is integrated within an airport setting and proposes a plan to mitigate them.

Vertiports will soon be as commonplace in the traveling public’s vernacular as airports are today.

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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….

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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.

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Public Private Partnership written on a clear see-thru board

Gaming the System: Rolling the Dice on AAM Infrastructure Investments —Public-Private Partnerships or State-Funded

When we think of commercial aviation today, we see a public-private business model that has evolved over the past 100 or so years. The public sector provides and operates the airports and air traffic management systems and private enterprise pay fees to use that infrastructure to provide air travel and cargo services to the public….

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