Urban Air Mobility

Urban air mobility (UAM) is a concept envisioning safe, sustainable, affordable, and accessible air transportation for passenger mobility, cargo delivery, and emergency management within or traversing a metropolitan area. While the deployment of UAM will require a network of infrastructure (i.e., vertiports), this emerging concept could face a variety of barriers, such as local opposition, infrastructure costs, and multimodal integration. This paper presents a novel simulation methodology using k-medians clustering and sensitivity analysis to model potential vertiport locations in the San...

The Research Handbook on Air Transport Management brings together leading academic researchers from around the world to reflect on and synthesise the state of the art in their respective subject specialisms. In so doing, the Handbook demonstrates the depth and diversity of research into various facets of flight, and identifies areas requiring future work.

Aviation is undergoing a transformation. Advancements in technology are enabling innovations in regional and on-demand aviation. Many challenges are currently being addressed, including community acceptance, safety, equity, issues around planning and implementation, airspace, and operations.

Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabling consumers access to on-demand air mobility, cargo and package delivery, healthcare applications, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network. While a number of technical and social concerns have been raised about AAM, early use cases for emergency response and aeromedical transport may be key to demonstrating the concept and building public acceptance. Using a five-step multi-method approach consisting of preliminary scoping, modeling performance metrics, developing baseline assumptions...