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Advanced Air Mobility is about enabling emerging aviation markets in a safe affordable and
accessible manner by NASA's vision for modernized air transportation system these missions include
on-demand mobility for both passengers and cargos between two points in a city between two cities
or between urban and rural areas one area that the NASA team is working on is safety so NASA is
helping to make sure that these novel aircraft and aam concepts are safe by using both design safety
and operational safety NASA is uniquely positioned to perform this safety-oriented research for the
broader AAM community because not only does NASA have a history of performing research
and safety NASA has the workforce expertise in things like verification and validation
as well as test and evaluation and NASA also serves as an unbiased element which can then
disseminate results and data that may not be publishable from different industry partners
NASA is already in the process of testing several highly automated functions such as detect and avoid
type functions flight path management type functions and assured geofencing type functions
affordable advanced air mobility has the potential to connect rural and urban areas
allowing for access to services like medical couriering or medical evacuation in the advent
of enormous traffic jams caused by an accident or even in the case of disaster management where a
flood washes out a rural road for AAM operations and vehicles safety is the number one priority
if these systems aren't safe no one's going to want to use them or want them flying overhead this is
why NASA's research is dedicated to making sure that the public gets the safety that it wants