Advanced Air Mobility & Urban Air Mobility

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

2024 Advanced Air Mobility Hackathon

Challenge 1: Understanding future demand for AAM and integrating AAM with other modes of transportation.

Analysis could include but is not limited to:

What is the future demand for AAM in the San Francisco Bay Area and at SFO in 2035 and beyond? How will AAM and other emerging transportation technologies (e.g., automated vehicles, high-speed rail, etc.) impact airport and regional modal access (e.g., demand for parking, taxis, transportation network companies, etc.)? Where should vertiports be sited to optimize opportunities...

Urban Air Mobility

Planning for Advanced Air Mobility

Adam Cohen, Susan Shaheen PhD, Yolanka Wulff JD
2024

Advanced air mobility (AAM) could result in fundamental changes to land use and the built environment and transform how people access essential services (e.g., emergency and medical services), goods, and mobility. While the impacts of these innovations remain to be seen, planners and policymakers need to prepare for these changes to minimize the potential for adverse impacts and maximize the likelihood of sustainable and equitable outcomes.

This PAS Report presents planners and policymakers with the foundational knowledge to understand potential AAM considerations and community...

An Assessment of the Potential Weather Barriers of Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

Colleen Reiche, PhD, Frank Brody, Christian McGillen, Joel Siegel, Adam Cohen
2018

Urban Air Mobility (UAM), a subset of advanced air mobility, is a concept that envisions safe, sustainable, affordable, and accessible air transportation for passenger mobility, cargo delivery, and emergency management within or traversing a metropolitan area. In recent years, several companies have designed and tested enabling elements of this concept, including; prototypes of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, operational concepts, and market studies to understand potential business models. While UAM may be enabled by the convergence of several factors, a number of barriers...

A Legal and Regulatory Assessment for the Potential of Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

Jacqueline Serrao, Sarah Nilsson, and Shawn Kimmel
2018

This assessment identifies the legal and regulatory requirements (existing and anticipated) that must be met for three focus UAM markets - Air Taxi, Ambulance, and Airport Shuttle. This assessment also captures variations in requirements observed at the state and local level, international developments, certification issues, and existing opportunities to address legal barriers and gaps.

The Potential Societal Barriers of Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

Susan Shaheen, PhD, Adam Cohen, and Emily Farrar
2018

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging concept ofair transportation where small package delivery drones to passengercarrying air taxis operate over populated areas, from small towns to the largest cities are being consideredThis could revolutionize the way people move within and around cities by shortening commute times, bypassing ground ...

Reimagining the Future of Transportation with Personal Flight: Preparing and Planning for Urban Air Mobility

Adam Cohen, Justin Guan, Matthew Beamer, Ryan Dittoe, Seyedmirsajad Mokhtarimousavi
2020

On January 12, 2020, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies hosted a workshop titled “Reimagining the Future of Transportation with Personal Flight: Preparing and Planning for Urban Air Mobility” at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C. The workshop facilitated a dialogue among over 130 participants from public-sector organizations, private companies, non-governmental organizations, and educational institutions. Government, industry, and academic thought leaders presented and participated in panel discussions with the...

Urban Air Mobility Market Study

Colleen Reiche, PhD, Rohit Goyal, Adam Cohen, Jacqueline Serrao, Shawn Kimmel, PhD, Chris Fernando, Susan Shaheen, PhD
2018

The Booz Allen Team explored market size and potential barriers to Urban Air Mobility (UAM) by focusing on three potential markets – Airport Shuttle, Air Taxi, and Air Ambulance. We found that the Airport Shuttle and Air Taxi markets are viable, with a significant total available market value in the U.S. of $500 billion, for a fully unconstrained scenario. In this unconstrained best-case scenario, passengers would have the ability to access and fly a UAM at any time, from any location to any destination, without being hindered by constraints such as weather, infrastructure, or...

Urban Air Mobility: History, Ecosystem, Market Potential, and Challenges

Adam Cohen, Susan Shaheen, PhD, Emily Farrar
2021

Since the early 20th century, inventors have conceptualized “plane cars” and other urban aerial transportation. Emerging innovations in electrification, automation, and other technologies are enabling new opportunities for on-demand air mobility, business models, and aircraft design. Urban air mobility (UAM) envisions a safe, sustainable, affordable, and accessible air transportation system for passenger mobility, goods delivery, and emergency services within or traversing metropolitan areas. This research employed a multi-method approach comprised of 106...

Advanced Air Mobility: Demand Analysis and Market Potential of the Airport Shuttle and Air Taxi Markets

Rohit Goyal, Colleen Reiche, Chris Fernando, Adam Cohen
2021

Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabling consumers access to on-demand air mobility, cargo and package delivery, healthcare applications, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network. However, a number of challenges could impact AAM’s growth potential, such as autonomous flight, the availability of take-off and landing infrastructure (i.e., vertiports), integration into airspace and other modes of transportation, and competition with shared automated vehicles. This article discusses the results of a demand analysis...