Abstract Recent technological advances provide the means for potentially realizing urban air mobility (UAM) as a passenger transport mode for intra- and inter-urban transport. However, questions regarding regulations, infrastructure requirements, and economic constraints remain to be answered. Therefore, this review aims at giving an overview on different research areas in the emerging topic of UAM. To this end, findings from several fields within the UAM research community were gathered and are presented here to provide a landscape of relevant questions surrounding the implementation of UAM. This overview considers vehicle-related aspects, such as aircraft requirements and aircraft classification for intra- and inter-city passenger transport, and discusses potential hurdles to their introduction. The exploration of challenges includes questions on certification and policy, as well as challenges in the area of traffic management and ground infrastructure requirements. Besides that, literature on operational concepts, possible market structures and the interaction with existing transport systems will be reviewed. The discussion of hurdles will conclude with a summary of current literature on public acceptance of UAM. An overview of methods for modelling and simulation of UAM will wrap up the prior discussion and provide insights on first modelling results.
Highlights Urban air mobility is a possible future mode of transport offering aerial passenger transport within or between cities. Different vehicle configurations can be clustered into rotary-wing cruise vehicles and fixed-wing cruise vehicles. First institutions publish certification guidelines; yet, certification and regulation still require further development. Ground infrastructure as well as UAM traffic management are key success factors for the system. A lack of public acceptance and user adoption could be game-stoppers.
An overview of current research and developments in urban air mobility – Setting the scene for UAM introduction
2020-06-02
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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