URBAN AIR MOBILITY (UAM): TRANSFORMING THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY LANDSCAPE
Looking ahead, larger cities around the world are likely to have urban air mobility (UAM) in around 15 years. Thousands of air-taxi flights would take place daily in capital cities, not only in megacities if economic forecasts come true.
Flying cabs have a science fiction, if not science fantasy, feel to them. Many mobility experts, on the other hand, imagine a future in which lightweight, car-like vehicles fly through the skies over our towns, avoiding the congested streets. In the next five years, more than 250 companies of all sizes are planning to produce, develop, or operate these air taxis. Multi-rotor or multi-winged electric vehicles with a 30-to-300-mile range would be the most common. They will take off and land vertically, seat two to six people, and have a vertical takeoff and landing. Although some individuals will own such vehicles, we anticipate that the vast majority will be shared.
According to the latest projections, the global demand for this urban air mobility (UAM) market will be in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year once it hits size and maximum potential.
Is UAM just a possibility or an upcoming reality?
Urban air mobility makes use of the sky to help connect people to cities and areas, allowing them to connect more easily. Air mobility is improving in both manned and unmanned modes. The term “urban air mobility” refers to air-based urban transit systems. As a result of traffic congestion, these transportation networks arose.
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Urban air mobility uses the sky to link people to cities and towns, making it easier for them to connect. Both manned and unmanned air mobility is improving. Air-based mass transportation networks are referred to as “urban air mobility.” These transportation networks emerged as a result of traffic congestion. Two key requirements for achieving sustainable UAM were established by the Horizon 2020 research program on smart, green, and integrated transport: reducing the total environmental footprint and controlling noise and visual pollution. UAM-generated noise has been described as a key factor in this growth.
Even though residents’ reactions to well-controlled urban flight trials have been neutral or even optimistic, there would almost certainly be resistance to the full-scale implementation of UAM, as thousands of flights are flown daily in a single area.
In this early stage of planning for UAM operations, the lessons learned and technological advances made should allow us to take the steps necessary to make UAM socially acceptable and sustainable from the start. Drones must be used with caution to ensure that transferring urban transportation into the vertical dimension does not simply re-create old problems in the name of exploring new markets.
It is suggested that openness be used to help raise acceptance of UAM and the noise associated with it among individual residents as well as communities. Residents are viewed as stakeholders in UAM in this concept, which expands on the demand for continuous noise measurements of vertical take-off and landing operations at individual sites, with data collected voluntarily by residents and facilitated by smartphone-based participatory noise sensing.
UAM: Possible or attain or hard to conceive?
However, the route from here to there is unclear. UAM faces a range of obstacles, including technology, regulatory issues, public acceptance, air traffic control, and physical infrastructure, to name a few. It also needs to overcome a pilot challenge. These vehicles would finally be able to fly themselves, but due to technological challenges, regulatory considerations, and the need for public approval, it could take a decade or more. Until autonomous flight of hundreds or thousands of vehicles over cities around the world becomes a reality, the industry will need to hire, train, and deploy thousands of pilots — a significant but less noticeable obstacle compared to other problems.
The public will be more aware of UAM’s value proposition as a result of the pilots. They must, however, gain experience with this new mode of transportation and assist in the collection of data before taking off. Pilots must also be aware of wider operational challenges to help regulators and the general public gain trust in the industry’s safety and reliability.
There are four big headwinds
Before reaching full autonomy, the industry would need to hire, train, and pay thousands of pilots over the next decade or so. Businesses enthusiastically awaiting their automated future will face a slew of challenges as a result of this fact.
The issue of cost
Costs and complexity of service rise as a result of pilots. Our models say that the cost per passenger-seat-kilometer of a piloted UAM flight may be up to twice that of an autonomous flight (based on realistic assumptions about key inputs like energy prices, vehicle cost and usage, landing fees, and pilot salaries).
