Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions
Transportation in cities may undergo substantial changes due to two emerging technologies that enable three-dimensional movement of people or cargo. These emerging technologies are urban air mobility (UAM) and flying cars. The present study gives an overview of both technologies, differences and sim...
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| description | Transportation in cities may undergo substantial changes due to two emerging technologies that enable three-dimensional movement of people or cargo. These emerging technologies are urban air mobility (UAM) and flying cars. The present study gives an overview of both technologies, differences and similarities between them, challenges they face, the opportunities they bring, and examples for them with varying stages of readiness from being commercially available to being a concept in development having a small-scale prototype. The models covered here include EHang 216 (UAM aircraft), VoloCity (UAM aircraft), PAL-V Liberty Sport (flying car), and ASKA (flying car). Focusing on air taxis (or flying taxis) in the form of a fleet of piloted or autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft operated commercially by a corporation that provides mobility as a service, a discussion about the prospects of this nontraditional mode of transportation is provided, with anticipated drawbacks and proposed solutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df71da7ed3d8487abf130718689111cd2022-12-22T03:45:00ZengDe GruyterOpen Engineering2391-54392022-11-0112166267910.1515/eng-2022-0379Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutionsMarzouk Osama A.0Department of Technical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Buraimi, Al Buraimi, Sultanate of OmanTransportation in cities may undergo substantial changes due to two emerging technologies that enable three-dimensional movement of people or cargo. These emerging technologies are urban air mobility (UAM) and flying cars. The present study gives an overview of both technologies, differences and similarities between them, challenges they face, the opportunities they bring, and examples for them with varying stages of readiness from being commercially available to being a concept in development having a small-scale prototype. The models covered here include EHang 216 (UAM aircraft), VoloCity (UAM aircraft), PAL-V Liberty Sport (flying car), and ASKA (flying car). Focusing on air taxis (or flying taxis) in the form of a fleet of piloted or autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft operated commercially by a corporation that provides mobility as a service, a discussion about the prospects of this nontraditional mode of transportation is provided, with anticipated drawbacks and proposed solutions.https://doi.org/10.1515/eng-2022-0379urban air mobilityuamflying cartransportationautonomousevtolair taximaas |
| spellingShingle | Marzouk Osama A. Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions Open Engineering urban air mobility uam flying car transportation autonomous evtol air taxi maas |
| title | Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions |
| title_full | Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions |
| title_fullStr | Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions |
| title_short | Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions |
| title_sort | urban air mobility and flying cars overview examples prospects drawbacks and solutions |
| topic | urban air mobility uam flying car transportation autonomous evtol air taxi maas |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/eng-2022-0379 |
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