Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Integration to Urban Planning

Abstract

Recently, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concept is presented as an alternative, time-saving and environmental friendly urban transport mode. UAM development involves the use of cities airspace, and air-vehicles have to use ground or buildings facilities for takeoff and landing. Currently, cities development and functions are defined by urban planning legislation and tools, and property laws. Air-traffic is regulated by international standards, of the International Civil Aviation Organization, national aviation authorities’ regulations, while airplanes use specific spatial locations for takeoff and landing that are also regulated by local aviation authorities, while specific rules and restrictions on constructions development and land uses are implemented in inhabited or industrial areas found in a close distance from the airports. As UAM involves simultaneously urban airspace use and ground/or non-ground level take off and landing infrastructures, its correlation to urban planning emerges. This article presents UAM integration on urban planning taking into consideration the correlations between urban planning principles, property legislation restrictions.