Advanced Air Mobility & Urban Air Mobility

Below are a selections of TSRC Publications related to Urban Air Mobility

Urban Air Mobility: Opportunities and Obstacles

Adam Cohen, Susan Shaheen, PhD
2021

Urban Air Mobility (UAM, also known as advanced air mobility) is an emerging concept that envisions a safe, sustainable, affordable, and accessible air transportation system for emergency management, cargo delivery, and passenger mobility within or traversing a metropolitan area. While numerous societal concerns have been raised about these approaches (e.g., privacy, safety, security, social equity), on-demand aviation has the potential to provide options for emergency services, goods delivery, and passenger mobility in urban and rural areas using small piloted and autonomous...

Future of Aviation: Advancing Aerial Mobility through Technology, Sustainability, and On-Demand Flight

Adam Cohen, Susan Shaheen, PhD
2023

Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabling consumers access to air mobility, cargo and package delivery, healthcare applications, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network. AAM includes local use cases of about a 50-mile radius in rural or urban areas and intraregional use cases of up to approximately 500 miles that occur within or between urban and rural areas. The Future of Aviation Conference: Advancing Aerial Mobility through Technology, Sustainability, and On-Demand Flight was held in person at the San Francisco...

Advanced Air Mobility: Opportunities, Challenges, and Research Needs for the State of California (2023-2030)

Adam Cohen, Susan Shaheen PhD
2024

Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept that enables consumers access to air mobility, goods delivery, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network. AAM can provide shortrange urban, suburban, and rural flights of about 50-miles and mid-range regional flights up to a several hundred miles. State law delegates responsibility for oversight in aviation primarily to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). This white paper presents an overview of the state of the market, such as the aircraft under development and forecast...

How flying taxis could go mainstream

February 20, 2024
Sarah Sloat

Wisk Generation 6 aircraft from Wisk Aero LLC

Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director discusses electric vertical-takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and advanced air mobility (AAM) with Business Insider.

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