An Airport-Centric Study of the Urban Air Mobility Market

Urban air mobility (UAM) is a new and rapidly evolving market, broadly characterized as the local, on-demand movement of people and goods by air using a range of piloted, semi-autonomous, and fully autonomous systems. UAM will affect the airport industry, yet there is little airport-specific research on the topic. Airports need to understand and anticipate the impacts and opportunities of the UAM market, including anticipated market growth, vehicle types and uses, operations and management, community and environmental impacts, regulatory changes, financial implications, and other issues. The objective of this research is to produce a report that assesses the potential impacts of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) on airports of different sizes and having different levels of activity.  

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4624

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $350000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 03-50

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Airport Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Project Managers:

  Navarrete, Joseph

• Performing Organizations:

  Ascension Group, LLC

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Cohn, Pamela

• Start Date: 20190703
• Expected Completion Date: 20201002
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Drones; Impacts; Market assessment; Mobility; Transportation planning; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01677268
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 03-50
• Files: TRB, RiP
• Created Date: Jul 30 2018 3:03PM