Urban Air Mobility: The DoD and Agility Prime
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a rapidly growing field in the private sector. A number of different companies have already demonstrated proof-of-concept electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) [...]
Urban Air Mobility: Headlines from CES 2020
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an event that was previously known for unveiling the latest and greatest of home entertainment systems and personal electronic devices. However, in recent [...]
Urban Air Mobility: A Look at UAM Vehicles
The concept of urban air mobility (UAM) is not a new one. One of the hallmarks of science fiction, from The Jetsons to Star Wars, is the flying car. The ability to expand two-dimensional roads [...]
Urban Air Mobility: Help for UAM Innovators to Navigate the Unknown
By Percy Sanford, UAM Leader In as early as 2023, Uber plans to begin offering its aerial ridesharing services. Firms such as Performance Software can provide help for UAM innovators to achieve [...]
Urban Air Mobility: The NASA UAM Grand Challenge
By Percy Sanford, UAM Leader Urban Air Mobility (UAM) represents the next step in the development of transportation in crowded urban environments. By taking advantage of unused airspace in these [...]
Urban Air Mobility: Summary of 2019 NBAA
The 2019 conference of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) was held in Las Vegas on October 22-24, 2019. While the conference covered many different topics relating to business [...]
Urban Air Mobility Safety: Demonstrating the Safety of UAM Vehicles
By Percy Sanford, UAM Leader With the growing congestion of city streets, organizations like Uber and NASA have been working to redefine urban transportation. While current vehicles are limited [...]
The Challenge of Batteries for Urban Air Mobility
By Percy Sanford, UAM Leader Urban air mobility (UAM) represents the next level of personal urban transport. As large cities grow increasingly crowded, the mobility of their citizens decreases [...]
Urban Air Mobility Challenges and Threats
By Percy Sanford, UAM Leader If you’ve seen The Jetsons television show or the Star Wars movies, then you’ve seen flying cars. They’re designed to solve the problems of traffic congestion, and [...]
Urban Air Mobility: What Is It?
Humans tend to think in two dimensions. We are comfortable with forward and backward, left and right, but tend not to think of up and down. Our cities are built the same way, with the majority of [...]
