policy brief

Balancing Noise, Energy, and Time: Designing Advanced Air Mobility Operations for Urban Integration

Abstract

As large cities face increasing urbanization and traffic congestion, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) has emerged as a potential solution to inner and inter-city transportation challenges. Leveraging recent advancements in electrification, distributed rotors, and other aviation technologies, AAM aims to provide scheduled and on-demand passenger and cargo flights as a part of multimodal transportation networks. These flights are expected to operate at higher densities, lower altitudes, and in closer proximity to urban areas than legacy transport aircraft operations of the National Airspace System (NAS).