Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a safe and efficient aviation transportation system that will operate and transport passengers or cargo at lower altitudes within urban and suburban areas. An UAM will use highly automated aircraft technologies such as electric propulsion and enhanced battery capacity, applied to vertical take-off and landing systems that refers to existing and emerging technologies such as traditional helicopters, vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft (VTOL), electrically propelled, vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft (eVTOL), and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Urban Air Mobility is expected to become a reality in Europe within 3-5 years.

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