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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

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

We present a congestion-aware routing solution for indoor evacuation, which produces real-time individual-customized evacuation routes among multiple destinations while keeping tracks of all evacuees' locations. A population density map,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Zeyu Zhang , Hangxin Liu , Ziyuan Jiao , Yixin Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu

This paper introduces a novel approach to detour management in Urban Air Traffic Management (UATM) using knowledge representation and reasoning. It aims to understand the complexities and requirements of UAM detours, enabling a method that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jeongseok Kim , Kangjin Kim

Nowadays the problem of traffic congestion is known as the main cause of air pollution in the cities of the world. Urban traffic engineers and managers have proposed three general approaches to dealing with this phenomenon. The first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-08 M. Shahgholian , D. Gharavian

Autonomous uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial relays to serve users far from terrestrial infrastructure. Unfortunately, existing algorithms for aerial relay path planning cannot accommodate general flight constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Pham Q. Viet , Daniel Romero

In high-density environments where numerous autonomous agents move simultaneously in a distributed manner, streamlining global flows to mitigate local congestion is crucial to maintain overall navigation efficiency. This paper introduces a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Takuro Kato , Keisuke Okumura , Yoko Sasaki , Naoya Yokomachi

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging transportation paradigm in which Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) autonomously transport passengers and goods in cities. The UAS have different operators with different, sometimes competing goals, yet…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Nicole Fronda , Phil Smith , Bardh Hoxha , Yash Pant , Houssam Abbas

Leading proposals for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) recognize the need for strategic and tactical airspace deconfliction, where the need for coordination appears in different forms and nuances. One recurring element is the use of pre-defined…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Ítalo Romani de Oliveira , Euclides Carlos Pinto Neto , Thiago Toshio Matsumoto , Huafeng Yu

This paper studies congestion-aware route-planning policies for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems, whereby a fleet of autonomous vehicles provides on-demand mobility under mixed traffic conditions. Specifically, we first devise a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Salomón Wollenstein-Betech , Arian Houshmand , Mauro Salazar , Marco Pavone , Christos G. Cassandras , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Balancing traffic flow by influencing drivers' route choices to alleviate congestion is becoming increasingly more appealing in urban traffic planning. Here, we introduce a discrete dynamical model comprising users who make their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-09 Bo Li , David Saad , Andrey Y. Lokhov

The exponential growth of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) services demands assurances of safety in the airspace. This research a Traffic Control Framework (TCF) for developing digital flight rules for Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) flying in…

Besides air pollution and commuter stress, traffic congestions also lead to loss of productivity, increase in delay, vehicle operating cost, and accidents. To assuage these issues, several logistics companies are planning to launch air…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-19 Suchithra Rajendran

We investigate a method to deal with congestion of sectors and delays in the tactical phase of air traffic flow and capacity management. It relies on temporal objectives given for every point of the flight plans and shared among the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Gaétan Marceau , Pierre Savéant , Marc Schoenauer

In this paper, we propose a distributed solution to the navigation of a population of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to best localize a static source. The network is considered heterogeneous with UAVs equipped with received signal strength…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) promises a new dimension to decongested, safe, and fast travel in urban and suburban hubs. These UAM aircraft are conceived to operate from small airports called vertiports each comprising multiple take-off/landing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Prajit KrisshnaKumar , Jhoel Witter , Steve Paul , Hanvit Cho , Karthik Dantu , Souma Chowdhury

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

In this letter, we propose a new routing strategy to improve the transportation efficiency on complex networks. Instead of using the routing strategy for shortest path, we give a generalized routing algorithm to find the so-called {\it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Bo Hu , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

Effective traffic optimization strategies can improve the performance of transportation networks significantly. Most exiting works develop traffic optimization strategies depending on the local traffic states of congested road segments,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Fengkun Gao , Bo Yang , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan , Yang Zhang

Routing strategies for traffics and vehicles have been historically studied. However, in the absence of considering drivers' preferences, current route planning algorithms are developed under ideal situations where all drivers are expected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Jizhe Zhou , Qiwei Chen , Qin Li