Abstract：

Humans have always been fascinated with flying, and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is no exception. At its early developing stage, a large number of companies and ideas emerged, which have now been consolidated. Following the first decade of exploration, Urban Air Mobility has thus achieved a level of planning maturity, with other concepts, such as Advanced Air Mobility and “low altitude economy” also entering the landscape. Besides significant advances, particularly in the technological front, several barriers to the deployment of UAM have also arisen.

In this talk, we will look at some of the key barriers hampering the deployment of UAM, and how they can be overcome. Aspects that will be covered include increasing user and societal acceptance, reducing high operation cost per passenger, but also identifying (and securing) the required infrastructure, e.g. vertiports. Findings from research performed in Europe, the US and China will be showcased.

Prof. Dr. Constantinos Antoniou：

Constantinos Antoniou is a Full Professor in the Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from NTUA (1995), a MS in Transportation (1997) and a PhD in Transportation Systems (2004), both from MIT. His research focuses on transport policy, modelling and optimization of transportation models, data analytics and statistical learning for transportation, and human factors for future mobility.

He has been Principal Investigator (PI) of several research projects (e.g. EU-funded SCUDO, CulturalRoad, MI-TRAP, AutoSUP, PHOEBE, iDREAMS, MOMENTUM, Drive2thefuture, NOESIS, as well as nationally-funded, e.g. German DFG AgiMo, GASTRA, VOTAVI, SEE-Far, DVanPool and Trampa, and federally funded PANAMERA).

He has authored more than 500 scientific publications, including more than 240 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals and 3 books. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research – Part A: Policy and Practice.