Advanced Air Mobility: An Innovation for Future Diversified Transportation and Society

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is an innovative transportation system that will provide safe and efficient mobility of cargo, passenger and emergency services in low-altitude airspace. This paper highlights AAM's vision and addresses fundamental research challenges and opportunities, e.g., vertical lift aircraft technologies, infrastructure and operation, unmanned traffic management and system security. The overall structure of the AAM ecosystem is discussed from a technology and service perspective. The SEEDS evaluation criteria for the AAM system are explored in terms of promoting safety, sustainability and service quality during the development, verification and validation, and operation phases. As a key sector of the Mobility 5.0 paradigm, new air mobility needs to be integrated into multimodal transport and logistics systems to deliver diverse, sustainable and trustworthy solutions in the near future.