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Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions the widespread use of small aerial vehicles to transform transportation in dense urban environments. However, UAM faces critical operational challenges, particularly the balance between minimizing noise…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Surya Murthy , Zhenyu Gao , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu

In Urban Air Mobility (UAM) networks, takeoff and landing sites, called vertiports, are likely to experience intermittent closures due to, e.g., adverse weather. To ensure safety, all in-flight Urban Air Vehicles (UAVs) in a UAM network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Qinshuang Wei , Gustav Nilsson , Samuel Coogan

Ensuring safe separation between aircraft is a critical challenge in air traffic management, particularly in urban air mobility (UAM) environments where high traffic density and low altitudes require precise control. In these environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Surya Murthy , Tyler Ingebrand , Sophia Smith , Ufuk Topcu , Peng Wei , Natasha Neogi

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) aims to expand existing transportation networks in metropolitan areas by offering short flights either to transport passengers or cargo. Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft powered by lithium-ion battery…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Mina Montazeri , Chetan Kulkarni , Olga Fink

The development of urban-air-mobility (UAM) is rapidly progressing with spurs, and the demand for efficient transportation management systems is a rising need due to the multifaceted environmental uncertainties. Thus, this paper proposes a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chanyoung Park , Gyu Seon Kim , Soohyun Park , Soyi Jung , Joongheon Kim

To meet the growing mobility needs in intra-city transportation, the concept of urban air mobility (UAM) has been proposed in which vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are used to provide a ride-hailing service. In UAM, aircraft…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Tengchan Zeng , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

The real challenge in drone-logistics is to develop an economically-feasible Unmanned Aerial Mobility Network (UAMN). In this paper, we propose an integrated airport location (strategic decision) and routes planning (operational decision)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Wenjuan Hou , Tao Fang , Zhi Pei , Qiao-Chu He

Recently, urban air mobility (UAM) has attracted attention as an emerging technology that will bring innovation to urban transportation and aviation systems. Since the UAM systems pursue fully autonomous flight without a pilot, wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hyunsoo Kim

Urban air mobility (UAM) is an emerging concept in short-range aviation transportation, where the aircraft will take off, land, and charge their batteries at a set of vertistops, and travel only through a set of flight corridors connecting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Qinshuang Wei , Yue Yu , Ufuk Topcu

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) poses unprecedented traffic coordination challenges, especially with increasing UAV densities in dense urban corridors. This paper introduces a mathematical model using a control algorithm to optimize an Edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Rishit Agnihotri , Sandeep Kumar Sharma

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a new air transportation system for passengers and cargo in urban environments, enabled by new technologies and integrated into multimodal transportation systems. The vision of UAM comprises the mass use in urban…

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) offers a solution to current traffic congestion by using electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles to provide on-demand air mobility in urban areas. Effective traffic management is crucial for efficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Milad Pooladsanj , Ketan Savla , Petros A. Ioannou

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) offers a transformative approach to addressing urban congestion, improving accessibility, and advancing environmental sustainability. Rapid progress has emerged in three tightly linked domains since 2020: (1)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zhitong He , Zijing Wang , Lingxi Li

Urban Air mobility has gained momentum with recent advancements in the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, offering faster point-to-point air taxi services that could help relieve traffic congestion in chronically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Winfrey Paul Sagayam Dennis

The rapid evolution of urban air mobility (UAM) is reshaping the future of transportation by integrating aerial vehicles into urban transit systems. The design of aerial intersections plays a critical role in the phased development of UAM…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Sahand Khoshdel , Fatemeh Afghah , Qi Luo

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) represents an evolution of the air transportation system by introducing low-altitude, potentially high-traffic environments. AAM operations will be enabled by both new aircraft, as well as new safety- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Haochen Wu , Lesley A. Weitz , Jeffrey M. Henderson , Max Z. Li

In contrast to terrestrial wireless networks, dynamic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks are susceptible to unexpected link failures arising from UAV breakdowns or the depletion of its batteries. Drastic user rate fluctuations and sum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Linghui Ge , Xiao Liang , Hua Zhang , Peihao Dong , Jianxin Liao , Jingyu Wang

Urban air mobility (UAM) is a transformative system that operates various small aerial vehicles in urban environments to reshape urban transportation. However, integrating UAM into existing urban environments presents a variety of complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Surya Murthy , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu , Zhenyu Gao

This paper develops a graph reinforcement learning approach to online planning of the schedule and destinations of electric aircraft that comprise an urban air mobility (UAM) fleet operating across multiple vertiports. This fleet scheduling…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Steve Paul , Jhoel Witter , Souma Chowdhury

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging application of unmanned aerial vehicles that promises to reduce travel time and alleviate congestion in urban transportation systems. As drone density increases, UAM traffic is expected to experience…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hang Zhou , Yuhui Zhai , Shiyu Shen , Yanfeng Ouyang , Xiaowei Shi , Xiaopeng Li