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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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Urban Air Mobility: Viability of Hub-Door and Door-Door Movement by Air [PDF]

, 2020
Owing to a century of innovation in connected and automated aircraft design, for the rst time in history, air transport presents a potential competitive alternative to road, for hub-to-door and door-to-door urban services.
Bulusu, Vishwanath, Sengupta, Raja
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Advancing the Sustainable Urban Air Mobility Indicators (SUAMI) Framework: Integrating Non-Core Indicators and Proposing New Metrics for UAM

Journal of Sustainability
The integration of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) into urban transportation systems represents a significant step towards sustainable and innovative mobility solutions.
Anna Palaiologk, Kyriaki Daskaloudi, Eleftheria Georganti   +2 more
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A Systematic Review of Urban Air Mobility Development: eVTOL Drones’ Technological Challenges and Low-Altitude Policies of Shenzhen

Drones
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is emerging as a transformative solution to urban traffic congestion and inefficient ground travel. This paper presents the UAM development of Shenzhen, a pioneering city of low-altitude economy in China.
Jinhong Xu, Chenxi Guan, Yunpeng Wang, Junjie Zhuang, Wenbiao Gan   +4 more
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Flying taxis revived: Can Urban air mobility reduce road congestion?

Journal of Urban Mobility, 2021
: Many metropolitan regions are investigating Urban Air Mobility (UAM) as a new transport mode for medium distance intra-regional trips. In this paper, an agent-based travel demand model was developed to simulate UAM demand for the region surrounding ...
A. Pukhova, C. Llorca, A. Moreno, C. Staves, Q. Zhang, R. Moeckel   +5 more
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Urban air mobility (UAM) vehicle design considerations to facilitate future accident investigation

AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, 2019
The introduction of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles will initiate many new and unique challenges to the current operational airspace environment. Many of these challenges are researched today, and solutions are investigated. The main goal of this ongoing research is to develop a safe and sustainable UAMsystem looking at the design of vehicles and ...
Schuurman, M.J. (author), Rattanagraikanakorn, B. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Kassapoglou, C. (author)   +3 more
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The role of technology belief, perceived risk and initial trust in users’ acceptance of urban air mobility: An empirical case in China

Multimodal Transportation
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is poised to revolutionize transportation, necessitating an assessment of public acceptance before broad commercial adoption. This study presents the Urban Air Mobility Acceptance Model (UAM-AM), which draws from the Technology ...
Enjian Yao, Dongbo Guo, Shasha Liu, Junyi Zhang   +3 more
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A Framework to Develop Urban Aerial Networks by Using a Digital Twin Approach

Drones, 2022
The new concept of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and the emergent unmanned aerial vehicles are receiving more and more attention by several stakeholders for implementing new transport solutions. However, there are several issues to solve in order to implement
Matteo Brunelli, Chiara Caterina Ditta, Maria Nadia Postorino   +2 more
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Trajectory-Based Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Operations Simulator (TUS)

, 2019
Nowadays, the demand for optimized services in urban environments to provide better society wellness is increasing. In this sense, ground transportation in dense urban environments has been facing challenges for many years (e.g., congestion and resilience).
Neto, Euclides C. Pinto, Baum, Derick M., Junior, Jorge Rady de Almeida, Junior, João Batista Camargo, Cugnasca, Paulo Sérgio   +4 more
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Evaluating UAM–Wildlife Collision Prevention Efficacy with Fast-Time Simulations

Aerospace
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) promises to reduce ground traffic and journey times by using electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for short, low-altitude flights, especially in urban environments.
Lewis Mossaberi, Isabel C. Metz, Sophie F. Armanini   +2 more
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