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A Conceptual Design Methodology for e-VTOL Aircraft for Urban Air Mobility
Applied Sciences, 2021 Recent progress of electric systems has raised attention towards hybrid-electric and full-electric aircraft. Nevertheless, the current low battery energy density limits the application of these propulsive architectures to large transport aircraft. In the
Giuseppe Palaia +4 more
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Quantifying the benefits of vehicle pooling with shareability networks [PDF]
, 2014 Taxi services are a vital part of urban transportation, and a considerable contributor to traffic congestion and air pollution causing substantial adverse effects on human health.
Ratti, Carlo +5 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the short-term associations between in-vehicle ultrafine particles (UFP) and black carbon (BC) concentrations and irritation symptoms and lung parameters of taxi drivers, pre- and post-lockdown.
Melissa Hachem +2 more
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Using mobility information to perform a feasibility study and the evaluation of spatio-temporal energy demanded by an electric taxi fleet [PDF]
, 2017 Half of the global population already lives in urban areas, facing to the problem of air pollution mainly caused by the transportation system. The recently worsening of urban air quality has a direct impact on the human health. Replacing today’s internal
Castano-Solis, Sandra +4 more
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Complexity, 2020 Due to the increasing number of people traveling by air, the passenger flow at the airport is increasing, and the problem of passenger drop-off and pickup has a huge impact on urban traffic.
Yingmiao Qian +6 more
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The trade-off between taxi time and fuel consumption in airport ground movement [PDF]
, 2012 Environmental impact is a very important agenda item in many sectors nowadays, which the air transportation sector is also trying to reduce as much as possible.
A Binder +33 more
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Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions
Open Engineering, 2022 Transportation in cities may undergo substantial changes due to two emerging technologies that enable three-dimensional movement of people or cargo. These emerging technologies are urban air mobility (UAM) and flying cars.
Marzouk Osama A.
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ICT Express, 2021 The urban aerial mobility (UAM) system, such as drone taxi or air taxi, is one of future on-demand transportation networks. Among them, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) is one of UAM systems that is for identifying the locations of ...
Won Joon Yun +3 more
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Trajectory generation based on power for urban air mobility
Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering, 2023 A method of generating trajectories based on power is proposed for Urban Air Taxis. The method is simpler and more direct than traditional methods because it does not require a detailed aircraft model or a flight control model.
Russell A. Paielli
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Future TransportationIntroducing Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) as a novel transportation mode poses unique challenges due to limited practical and empirical data. One of these challenges involves accurately estimating future passenger demand and the required number of air ...
Martin Lindner +3 more
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