Urban air mobility: Systematic review of scientific publications and regulations for vertiport design and operations

K Schweiger, L Preis - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Novel electric aircraft designs coupled with intense efforts from academia, government and
industry led to a paradigm shift in urban transportation by introducing UAM. While UAM …

[HTML][HTML] Urban air mobility for last-mile transportation: A review

N Moradi, C Wang, F Mafakheri - Vehicles, 2024 - mdpi.com
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a revolutionary approach to transportation in densely populated
cities. UAM involves using small, highly automated aircraft to transport passengers and …

Vertiport planning for urban aerial mobility: An adaptive discretization approach

W Kai, A Jacquillat, V Vaze - manufacturing & service …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: Electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicles enable urban
aerial mobility (UAM). This paper optimizes the number, locations, and capacities of …

Urban Aerial Mobility for airport shuttle service

D Lv, W Zhang, K Wang, H Hao, Y Yang - Transportation Research Part A …, 2024 - Elsevier
Airport shuttle service is regarded as one of the most promising use cases for the early
deployment of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). This study introduces an integrated modeling …

Strategic integration of vertiport planning in multimodal transportation for urban air mobility: A case study in Beijing, China

Y Zhao, T Feng - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
In pursuit of strategic sustainable development goals, this study seeks to analyze the spatial
placement of vertiports for urban air mobility, positioning them as integral components within …

Repurposing urban air mobility infrastructure for sustainable transportation in metropolitan cities: A case study of vertiports in São Paulo, Brazil

JK Ribeiro, GMR Borille, M Caetano… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging transportation solution for large cities,
utilizing electric aircraft with vertical take-off and landing (eVTOLs) capabilities, which …

[HTML][HTML] Electric aircraft charging network design for regional routes: A novel mathematical formulation and kernel search heuristic

A Kinene, S Birolini, M Cattaneo… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The uptake of electric aircraft appears faster today than predicted. Given the prominent
electric aircraft technologies, short-and medium-haul routes are the ones that will benefit …

Integrated Mobility Hub Location Selection for Sustainable Urban Mobility

JJ So, M Chae, J Hong, J Youm, SH Kim… - Sustainable cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study suggests a systematic approach for selecting the optimal locations for mobility
hubs in urban areas, which serves as transfer centers for various modes of transport …

[HTML][HTML] Study on facility location of air taxi skyports using a prescriptive analytics approach

AA Sinha, S Rajendran - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current study identifies infrastructure locations for air taxi operations in New York City
(NYC) using a prescriptive analytics approach. Based on the potential air taxi demand …

[HTML][HTML] Robust optimisation for vertiport location problem considering travel mode choice behaviour in urban air mobility systems

Z Jin, KKH Ng, C Zhang - Journal of the Air Transport Research Society, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of novel vehicle technologies, air taxis are becoming a new
transport servicing model to achieve better urban air mobility (UAM) systems. The UAM …