Urban Air Mobility

If you want to learn and understand the concepts of urban air mobility in the most practical and simple way possible, then this is the course for you. As part of a newly launched Air Mobility Initiative (AMI), Bavarian companies and researchers from the Munich Aerospace research group “Urban Air Mobility” are driving the development of electric air transportation. In this newly published online course, participants in the initiative provide insights into this exciting future field.

Module 1: Introduction – What is Urban Air Mobility?

This first course module gives an overview of all aspects that define “Urban Air Mobility”. It explains the concept of Urban Air Mobiltiy as well as all crucial factors, such as vehicle and power train design, infrastructure and vertiport design, etc.

Module 2: Urban Air Mobility from an Industry Perspective

In this module, Dr. Markus May presents the approach to the topic of Urban Air Mobility from an industry perspective and shows the ideas of Airbus in this context.

Module 3: Political perspectives

In this module, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport presents the national policies and the legal framework for Urban Air Mobility in Germany.

Module 4: Demand Modeling for Urban Air Mobility

This module describes different approaches and data used to model travel demand. An introduction to discrete choice models is provided.

Module 5: Aviation Management

Decision makers at airports and airlines face many challenges and require support to deal with these effectively and appropriately. This gives rise to a variety of difficult and interesting problems. This module looks at three big classes of problems and discusses applicable general solution approaches.

Module 6: Traffic Management for Urban Air Mobility

This module is about understanding how traffic management for urban air mobility could work and what conditions need to be designed in an urban environment.

Module 7: Urban Air Mobility and Urban Planning

This module explains the common transport and land use planning processes that are required for building UAM vertiports.

Module 8: Understanding the Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility

This course covers a range of topics related to determining the demand for previously unavailable modes of transport, such as UAM.

Module 9: Air Mobility Trajectory Planning

Professor Rodrigues from Concordia University in Montreal presents the basics of trajectory planning, also, he describes how infrastructure, social acceptance, sustainability, flight data and air traffic management, as well as the regulation and certification serve as most important pillars in air mobility.

Module 10: Economics of Urban Air Mobility

This module discusses some of the economic conditions (cost, demand, finance) that must be met for market viability of eVTOL vehicles in passenger transportation networks.