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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

In recent years, the rapid pace of urbanization has posed profound challenges globally, exacerbating environmental concerns and escalating traffic congestion in metropolitan areas. To mitigate these issues, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) has…

Applications · Statistics 2024-12-11 Kamal Acharya , Mehul Lad , Liang Sun , Houbing Song

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) 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) 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) 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

With the increasing development of intelligent transportation systems and advancements in aviation technology, the concept of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is gaining attention. This study aims to improve operational safety and service…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Jin Zhang , Xiaoran Qin , Ming Zhang

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 this paper, we propose a conflict-free multi- agent flight scheduling that ensures robust separation in con- strained airspace for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations application. First, we introduce Pairwise Conflict Avoidance (PCA)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vahid Hemmati , Yonas Ayalew , Ahmad Mohammadi , Reza Ahmari , Parham Kebria , Abdollah Homaifar , Mehrdad Saif

This paper studies the problem of scheduling urban air mobility trips when travel times are uncertain and capacity at destinations is limited. Urban air mobility, in which air transportation is used for relatively short trips within a city…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Qinshuang Wei , Gustav Nilsson , Samuel Coogan

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), encompassing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Regional Air Mobility (RAM), offers innovative solutions to mitigate the issues related to ground transportation like traffic congestion, environmental pollution etc.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-17 Kamal Acharya , Mehul Lad , Houbing Song , Liang Sun

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging System of System (SoS) that faces challenges in system architecture, planning, task management, and execution. Traditional architectural approaches struggle with scalability, adaptability, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Ahmed R. Sadik , Muhammad Ashfaq , Niko Mäkitalo , Tommi Mikkonen

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

Variation and imbalance in demand poses significant challenges to Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations, affecting strategic decisions such as fleet sizing. To study the implications of demand variation on UAM fleet operations, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Shangqing Cao , Xuan Jiang , Emin Burak Onat , Bo Zou , Mark Hansen , Raja Sengupta , Anjan Chakrabarty

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize transportation. It will exploit the third dimension to help smooth ground traffic in densely populated areas. To be successful, it will require an integrated approach able to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Mehdi Bennaceur , Rémi Delmas , Youssef Hamadi

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems are rapidly emerging as promising solutions to alleviate urban congestion, with path planning becoming a key focus area. Unlike ground transportation, UAM trajectory planning has to prioritize communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuejiao Xie , Maonan Wang , Di Zhou , Man-On Pun , Zhu Han

Pre-departure flight plan scheduling for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and cargo delivery drones will require on-demand scheduling of large numbers of aircraft. We examine the scalability of an algorithm known as FastMDP which was shown to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Joshua R Bertram , Peng Wei , Joseph Zambreno

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

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

Traffic propagation simulation is crucial for urban planning, enabling congestion analysis, travel time estimation, and route optimization. Traditional micro-simulation frameworks are limited to main roads due to the complexity of urban…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Xuan Jiang , Raja Sengupta , James Demmel , Samuel Williams