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Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

Extension of transportation systems in metropolitan areas in the third dimension - air. UAM includes air traffic with and without humans onboard, and includes operations inside cities, and between suburbs and cities.

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Nuno Silva

30/10/2025
Gestor de Ciência / Research Funding Manager Business Research Unit
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  1. Source: SESAR

    Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is defined as air operations which are:

    · above urban areas, at least for part of the flight,

    · in ‘U-space airspace,’

    · performed by a mix of traffic which includes aircraft:

    · incapable of flying Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) or Visual Flight Rules (VFR),

     · with very limited range.

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