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Advanced Air Mobility or AAM is a new transportation system that allows us to get
between cities, allows us to move passengers and cargo on an on-demand fashion.
it's it's new and exciting it allows us to have these new vehicle configurations
that we've never dreamed of before.
So, AAM is the way of the future for aeronautics.
One area that NASA's AAM team is focusing on in their research is the area of vertiports.
A vertiport is where these new class of AAM vehicles
can take off and land vertically.
It needs less real estate less area than an airport
and allows us to access different parts of the city that were previously inaccessible
by helicopters because of loud noise.
NASA's Advanced Air Mobility mission is going to help
integrate these vertiports into some of the existing infrastructure and allow to add places for
electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles or eVTOLS to take off and land in cities and suburbs.
These AAM vehicles are going to be electric in their nature.
They're going to require power sources going to those helipads
and then the density of operations is going to be such that
there's going to be a lot of aircraft taking off and landing which requires potentially
other systems such as automation.
Our research is focused on trying to enable a new system
where automation helps at large scale and allows for both safety uh security and efficiency
and to make sure that you as a passenger get from one point to another on time and safely.