Urban Air Mobility
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.
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….
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
Urban Air Mobility Needs a New Wind Flow Model to Fly Right
From Chicago to Wellington, wind flows will challenge UAM operators
The study revealed a host of factors which impact urban wind flow. These include: diurnal variations, the Coriolis effect, geographic positioning, topography, surface roughness, flow incidence angle, building and street configurations, building aspect ratios, roof shapes, and building heights.
Droneports: Will Society Develop a NIMBY Approach?
EU Researchers propose a plan to ease the planning and development of landing and launch sites
Researchers in Finland, funded by the EU, are proposing a multi-stakeholder approach to smoothly integrate UAVs and their launch and liftoff sites into the Baltic region.
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.