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Doing the Math: Optimizing Routing and Scheduling for UAM Fleet Management Using Quantum Annealing
A quantum leap for UAM routing and scheduling.
Writing in Scientific Reports, seven researchers from Japan’s Tohuku University and Sumitomo Corporation proposed a plan to optimize how urban air mobility (UAM) operators, infrastructure managers, and others in the UAM ecosystem manage routing and scheduling using quantum annealing. Quantum annealing, a quantum computing process, uses quantum fluctuations to find the best solution to an optimization…
A Flight Path to Reducing UAM and Drone Accident Rates in Seoul in 2035
A plan to keep the skies above Seoul safe
Writing in the January 2025 issue of Urban Science, Han Yeol Baek of the Department of Architecture at Hannam University, South Korea and Jung Hon Kim of the Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate Studies, Pyeongtaek University South Korea, published their study, “Prediction of Urban Air Mobility and Drone Accident Rates and the Role of…
Vertiports vs. Heliports — An overview
Emily Lambert, a project manager with Texas Department of Transportation recently published a guide that will be of interest and use to DOT engineers and planners as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) transitions from a standalone Vertiport Design Advisory Circular to a Unified Vertical Lift Infrastructures AC by 2027. Find the guide here.
What Would a Successful AAM Air Shuttle Network Look Like?
Sufficient vertiports strategically placed may be the key
As discussions evolve around the impending introduction of advanced air mobility (AAM) into the fabric of global air transportation systems around the globe much of the dialogue has centered around the aircraft — electric vertical takeoff and landing, eVTOLs — at the heart of the revolution. But the success of AAM is about much more…
What Would a Successful AAM Air Shuttle Network Look?
Sufficient vertiports strategically placed are the key
As discussions evolve around the introduction of advanced air mobility (AAM) into the fabric of global air transportation systems much of the dialogue has centered around the aircraft — electric vertical takeoff and landing, eVTOLs — at the heart of the revolution. But the success of AAM is about much more than aircraft. Three researchers,…
The Key to Successful Adoption of Urban Air Mobility Services May Be on the Ground
Incentivizing commuters to commute -- by air
In the same way people choose where to live based on a home’s proximity to a freeway, autobahn, or public transportation to best facilitate their daily commute, Ying Zhao and Tao Feng, researchers with the Urban and Data Science Lab, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering at Hiroshima University, Japan conducted the study, “Commuter…