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The promise of energy-efficient battery-powered urban aircraft. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021
Sripad S, Viswanathan V.
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Exploration of Near-Term Potential Routes and Procedures for Urban Air Mobility [PDF]

This paper investigates routes and procedures for Urban Air Mobility (UAM), which aims to reduce congestion on the roads and highways by offering air taxi as an alternative to driving.
Dulchinos, Victoria, Edwards, Tamsyn, Keeler, Jillian, Verma, Savita A.   +3 more
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Regional Air Transport in Europe: The Potential Role of the Civil Tiltrotor in Reducing Airside Congestion [PDF]

, 2006
The volume of air traffic worldwide is still in constant growth despite unfair events that sometimes occur. The demand for regional air transport is also increasing, thanks in part to the use of new vehicles purposely designed for short range flights ...
Capri, Salvatore, Correnti, Vincenzo, Ignaccolo, Matteo, Inturri, Giuseppe   +3 more
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Airport Ground-Based Aerial Object Surveillance Technologies for Enhanced Safety: A Systematic Review

Drones
Airport airspace safety is increasingly threatened by small, unmanned aircraft systems and wildlife that traditional radar cannot detect. While earlier reviews addressed general counter-UAS techniques, individual sensors, or the detection of single ...
Joel Samu, Chuyang Yang
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Locating Electrified Aircraft Service to Reduce Urban Congestion

Information
The relentless expansion of urban populations and the surge in e-commerce have increased the demand for rapid delivery services, leading to an increase in truck traffic that contributes to urban congestion, environmental pollution, and economic ...
Raj Bridgelall
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Navigation and guidance requirements for commercial VTOL operations [PDF]

The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) has undertaken a research program to develop the navigation, guidance, control, and flight management technology base needed by Government and industry in establishing systems design concepts and operating ...
Hoffman, W. C., Hollister, W. M., Howell, J. D.   +2 more
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Adaptive Airborne Separation to Enable UAM Autonomy in Mixed Airspace [PDF]

The excitement and promise generated by Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concepts have inspired both new entrants and large aerospace companies throughout the world to invest hundreds of millions in research and development of air vehicles, both piloted and ...
Cotton, William B.
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Centralized and distributed optimization of advanced air mobility strategic traffic management

Drone Systems and Applications
Effective traffic management for advanced air mobility (AAM) operations in low-altitude urban airspace is crucial for safety and scalability. Our study aims to bridge a critical gap in AAM traffic management by minimizing travel delays in both ...
Joseph Kim, Max Z. Li, Ella M. Atkins, Giovanni Franzini, Khushboo Wadhwani, Stefano Riverso   +5 more
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Long-term application potential of urban air mobility complementing public transport: an upper Bavaria example. [PDF]

CEAS Aeronaut J, 2020
Ploetner KO, Al Haddad C, Antoniou C, Frank F, Fu M, Kabel S, Llorca C, Moeckel R, Moreno AT, Pukhova A, Rothfeld R, Shamiyeh M, Straubinger A, Wagner H, Zhang Q.   +14 more
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Airborne Trajectory Management for Urban Air Mobility [PDF]

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has captured the imagination of the public and the aviation industry for someday soon moving people and goods through and around metropolitan areas using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) that are electrically powered ...
Cotton, William, Wing, David J.
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