Posts by Dave Clarke
Urban Air Mobility: When It Comes to the Public’s eVTOL Attitudes, It’s Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
The March 2024 Issue of Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives published on Science Direct offers some advanced perspective on how the public-at-large will cotton to this whole ‘flying cars’ thing about to be unleashed on them (It’s kind of a ‘ready-or-not’ here we come kind of thing.). Researchers from Technische Universität Berlin, Hamid Mostofi, Tobias Biehle, Robin Kellermann, and Hans-Liudger Dienel presented their…
UAM: If We Build It, Will You Come? Will You Pay?
The technology behind air taxis may be ahead of people’s willingness to use them.
AI Has Come for Your Aircraft
You may have noticed that our lives — our digital lives and, by extension, practically every aspect of our offline lives — are about to undergo a radical transformation not seen since the advent of the internet. That transformation is being powered by artificial intelligence (AI). AI is computers supercomputing and processing data faster and…
An Advanced Simulation for Implementation of Advanced Air Mobility
Working together to hasten the safe introduction and integration of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) into the national airspaces of countries around the globe, a group of researchers from Cranfield University, Boeing Research and Technology—Europe, ANRA Technologies, Airbus-Unmanned Traffic Management, Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre, Ineco, and NTT Data, published an article, “The Development of an Advanced…
Vertiport, Vertiport, Wherefore Shall I Integrate You?
Much of the discussion surrounding the integration of urban/advanced air mobility (UAM/AAM) has focused on how best to accommodate this new transportation mode into the National Air Space (NAS) of any given nation-state (such as the United States) or a supranational union of states (such as the European Union). But, to date, little consideration has…
eVTOL Batteries: Advanced Machine Learning for AAM
If you use your mobile phone frequently, when the remaining battery life reaches 20%, the battery indicator icon in the upper right of the screen turns red. But if you’re operating your eVTOL the way many passenger-carrying operators expect to – lots of takeoffs and landings throughout the day, ferrying passengers from airports to downtown…