OBUAM- funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy

Research of the potential integration of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) to the existing transportation systems in the region of Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern)

Duration: 2019

This project is managed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and has been awarded for the year 2019 to the following partners/research groups: Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V., Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, the TUM Chair of Modeling Spatial Mobility, and the TUM Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering.

The project overall goals are:

• Simulating urban air mobility scenarios in the region of Upper Bavaria, including medium (2030) and long-term (2050) time frames

• Analyzing the challenges of this service’s integration at different levels: technology, vehicle, safety, regulations, etc. and summarizing the possible solutions for these

• Assessing possible business models for the service

• Evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of the integration of this service to the existing transportation systems and the impacts of the service on the social, economic, and environmental levels

• Discussing the results within the UAM Initiative Ingolstadt (https://www.ingolstadt.de/UAM) and identifying future research needs in the areas of technology and infrastructure, operations, regulations, and society. The results will be discussed in a final conference at the end of the year 2019. These will have a direct impact on the stakeholders to assess the potential of this new service, notably in Oberbayern.

Preliminary results

Follow-up project

(edited) 01.10.2022 by Hao Wu