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Improving Wind Speed Forecasting for Urban Air Mobility Using Coupled Simulations
Advances in Meteorology, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Hazardous weather, turbulence, wind, and thermals pose a ubiquitous challenge to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and electric‐Vertical Take‐Off and Landing (e‐VTOL) aircrafts, and the safe integration of UAS into urban area requires accurate high‐granularity wind data especially during landing and takeoff phases.
Mounir Chrit +2 more
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Drones, 2022 Novel electric aircraft designs coupled with intense efforts from academia, government and industry led to a paradigm shift in urban transportation by introducing UAM.
Karolin Schweiger, Lukas Preis
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IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, Volume 3, Issue 3, Page 262-272, September 2021., 2021 Abstract Emerging Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies have been under spotlight worldwide due to a promising spectrum of applications. Despite interesting use‐cases receiving worldwide media attention, drones are expected to have their most significant impact on supply chain and logistics systems in highly populated urban cities once the ...
Parth Rameshbhai Gabani +5 more
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AGU Advances, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2021., 2021 Abstract Over the last few years, the concept of incorporating aerial vehicles into the urban environment for diverse purposes has attracted ample interest and investment. These purposes cover a broad spectrum of applications, from larger vehicles designed for passenger transport, to package delivery and inspection/surveillance missions performed by ...
Domingo Muñoz‐Esparza +8 more
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Journal of Advanced Transportation, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 The idea and development of on‐demand air mobility (ODAM) services are revolutionizing our urban/regional transportation sector by exploring the third dimension: vertical airspace. The fundamental concept of on‐demand air taxi operations is not new, but advances in aircraft design and battery/engine technology plus massive problems with congestion and ...
Xiaoqian Sun +4 more
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The Location Problem of Medical Drone Vertiports for Emergency Cardiac Arrest Needs
Sustainability, 2023 The implementation of medical drones can quickly and efficiently expand the coverage range of an area, allowing for a faster response to incidences of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and improving the subsequent survival rate of such incidences, while promoting sustainable health development goals under the configuration standards for automatic external
Xinhui Ren, Ruibo Li
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A Framework to Develop Urban Aerial Networks by Using a Digital Twin Approach [PDF]
, 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
Brunelli M. +2 more
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Management of urban air mobility for sustainable and smart cities: Vertiport networks using a user-centred design [PDF]
, 2022 Purpose: Urban mobility is all about people as well as the climate change issue is a human issue. Thus, this research envisions to provide conditions and practical tools through the innovation in urban mobility by bringing urban air mobility (UAM) to ...
Dias, Veruska +2 more
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Drones for parcel and passenger transportation: A literature review [PDF]
, 2020 Delivery drones and ‘air taxis’ are currently among the most intensely discussed emerging technologies, likely to expand mobility into the ‘third dimension’ of low-level airspace.
Biehle, Tobias +2 more
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Vehicles, 2023 Stakeholders expect emerging urban air mobility (UAM) services that use electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to revolutionize transportation systems. However, to be effective, eVTOL facilities, known as vertiports, must seamlessly integrate with the existing multimodal transportation infrastructure.
Baishali Rahman +3 more
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