Air taxi service for urban mobility: A critical review of recent developments, future challenges, and opportunities

S Rajendran, S Srinivas - Transportation research part E: logistics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Expected to operate in the imminent future, air taxi service (ATS) is an aerial on-demand
transport for a single passenger or a small group of riders, which seeks to transform the …

Demand analysis in urban air mobility: A literature review

Q Long, J Ma, F Jiang, CJ Webster - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a novel concept that is revolutionizing urban transportation. This
transformation is largely due to the development of electric vertical take-off and landing …

[HTML][HTML] On the understanding of the current status of urban air mobility development and its future prospects: Commuting in a flying vehicle as a new paradigm

J Pons-Prats, T Živojinović, J Kuljanin - Transportation Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has the potential to disrupt air transportation, providing
disruptive innovation not only to aviation but also to mobility systems and urban planning …

Mid-fidelity approach to aerodynamic simulations of unconventional VTOL aircraft configurations

M Tugnoli, D Montagnani, M Syal, G Droandi… - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A new flexible medium-fidelity open source computational tool was developed with the
purpose of obtaining fast and reliable aerodynamic simulations of unconventional Vertical …

[PDF][PDF] Overview of traffic management of urban air mobility (UAM) with eVTOL aircraft

C Li, W Qu, Y Li, L Huang, P Wei - J. Traffic Transp. Eng, 2020 - researchgate.net
The emergence and development of urban air mobility (UAM) were reviewed in this work,
and the concept of UAM traffic management was defined. The social and technical factors …

Aerodynamic interaction between tandem overlapping propellers in eVTOL airplane mode flight condition

A Zanotti, D Algarotti - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The architecture of new electric aircraft concepts (eVTOLs) for urban air mobility is typically
characterised by multi-propellers in tandem configurations with different degrees of rotor …

[HTML][HTML] A conceptual design methodology for e-VTOL aircraft for urban air mobility

G Palaia, K Abu Salem, V Cipolla, V Binante… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent progress of electric systems has raised attention towards hybrid-electric and full-
electric aircraft. Nevertheless, the current low battery energy density limits the application of …

[HTML][HTML] Prognostics for Lithium-ion batteries for electric Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft using data-driven machine learning

M Mitici, B Hennink, M Pavel, J Dong - Energy and AI, 2023 - Elsevier
The health management of batteries is a key enabler for the adoption of Electric Vertical
Take-off and Landing vehicles (eVTOLs). Currently, few studies consider the health …

Study of emerging air taxi network operation using discrete-event systems simulation approach

S Rajendran, J Shulman - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2020 - Elsevier
This research focuses on understanding the air taxi operations to determine the number of
air taxis required to fulfill the demand for urban air mobility in New York City (NYC). We …

Scalable vertiport hub location selection for air taxi operations in a metropolitan region

L Chen, S Wandelt, W Dai… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
On-demand air mobility services, often called air taxis, are on the way to revolutionize our
urban/regional transportation sector by lifting transportation to the third dimension and thus …