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

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

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Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging concept envisioning a safe, efficient, accessible, quiet, and multi-use air transportation for passenger mobility, cargo delivery, and emergency management within or traversing a metropolitan area. Urban air mobility is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s broader vision for Mobility on Demand (MOD), an innovative transportation concept evolving around connected travelers, where consumers can access mobility and goods delivery services on demand by dispatching or using urban aviation services, courier services, shared automated vehicles, shared mobility, public transportation, and other innovative and emerging transportation technologies. In recent years, several companies have designed and tested enabling elements of the UAM concept including; prototypes of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capable aircraft, operational concepts, and market studies to understand potential business models. While UAM may be enabled by the convergence of several factors, several challenges such as: community acceptance, safety, equity, issues around planning and implementation, airspace, and operations, could create barriers to mainstreaming.

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  • Cohen, Adam & Guan, Justin & Beamer, Matthew & Dittoe, Ryan & Mokhtarimousavi, Seyedmirsajad, 2020. "Reimagining the Future of Transportation with Personal Flight: Preparing and Planning for Urban Air Mobility," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt9hs209r2, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:itsrrp:qt9hs209r2
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    1. Ilahi, Anugrah & Belgiawan, Prawira F. & Balac, Milos & Axhausen, Kay W., 2021. "Understanding travel and mode choice with emerging modes; a pooled SP and RP model in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 150(C), pages 398-422.
    2. Cohen, Adam & Shaheen, Susan, 2021. "Urban Air Mobility: Opportunities and Obstacles," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt0r23p1gm, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    3. Adam, Cohen & Susan, Shaheen, 2021. "Urban Air Mobility: Opportunities and Obstacles," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt3mg6z1wf, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.

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