Dear Colleagues, 

This Special Issue is devoted to research within the field of urban and regional air mobility and provides a publication framework for applied studies combining various disciplines to investigate how this future mode of transport will develop as a new market within air transportation. As urban and regional air mobility should be seen as a new transport system, this Special Issue calls for papers focussing on critical elements such as vehicles, vertiports, their operations, airspace, and ground infrastructure integration; in addition, we must consider specific city integration and the assessment of long-term economic, ecological, and social impacts. Vehicle-related aspects can cover topics of design, performance, and noise optimisation issues. As vertiports or usable airfields are the second critical element for urban and regional air mobility besides the vehicle, papers can focus on aspects such as vertiport location, their designs and operations, the integration to ground modes, and economics and business model options. The third critical element is the safe integration of these vehicles into existing airspace in cases of airport integration aspects and the optimisation of vehicle fleets and their assignments. The final critical elements for the successful integration of this new mode of transport are passenger adoption, public acceptance, and synergetic city integration. Therefore, submitted papers should be interdisciplinary and include aspects from aeronautical engineering, operations research, economics, and social sciences. While the focus should be on the application of established methods, particular enhancements of existing methodologies or new methods tailored to enable the understanding the impact of urban air mobility for passengers, logistics, and medical support could be addressed in papers in this Special Issue. We invite submissions exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances in our understanding of urban air mobility. Both theoretical and experimental studies are welcome, as well as comprehensive reviews and survey papers.

Dr. Kay Plötner
Dr. Imon Chakraborty
Guest Editors

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• transport system performance
• vertiports
• public acceptance
• passenger adoption
• airspace integration
• city integration
• eVTOL
• certification
• modelling and simulation