Urban Air Mobility Is Coming

We know (Trust us, please, we know!), urban air mobility (UAM) is coming. But what’s coming, and when, and where?

A lot of numbers are published, but they’re always somewhat scattershot, a projection here, a guesstimate there. So, we thought putting them all in one place – this place – might make it easier to understand the scope, the timelines, and the impact UAM will have.

Here are some of the more prominent digits we’ve found:

50% – The average travel time people will save using urban air mobility compared to (currently) conventional, regional, and intracity ground-based transportation.

438,000 – The number of UAM vehicles expected to be operational by 2040.

70 – The number of large cities where UAM will “fully emerge” by 2050.

12,000,000 – The number of global UAM passenger enplanements by the 2030s.

400,000,000 – The number of global UAM passenger enplanements by 2050 (4% of total enplanements).

US$15.54 billion – The projected value of the UAM market by 2030.

US$86.3 billion – The projected value of the UAM market by 2035

405+ – The number of enterprises developing UAM vehicles as of January 2021*

400Wh/kg – The battery energy density thought to be the critical enabling value for UAM electric vertical take off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles to be commercially viable.

* Per/courtesy of the Vertical Flight Society