Sustainable Urban Air Mobility Supported with Participatory Noise Sensing

Hinnerk Eißfeldt
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Hinnerk Eißfeldt: Department of Aviation and Space Psychology, DLR German Aerospace Center, 22335 Hamburg, Germany

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-11

Abstract: In about 15 years, there is likely to be urban air mobility (UAM) in larger cities across the globe. Air taxis will provide on-demand transportation for individual needs. They will also connect important transportation nodes, such as airports and city centers, as well as providing quick transfers between train stations or a convenient option for crossing rivers and lakes. It is hoped that UAM will help meet today’s political targets of sustainability and decarbonization. However, there are certain threats that could impede the sustainable and thus successful introduction of UAM to our cities, with noise being a prominent limitation. This paper argues that citizens have to be viewed as stakeholders in urban air transportation, regardless of whether they or not intend to use it, and that a concept of resident participatory noise sensing (PNS) will be beneficial to the implementation of UAM. Web-based services and smartphones facilitate the access and updating of current information about local noise distributions, thus enabling them to be used to foster UAM in smart cities.

Keywords: urban air mobility; transportation; air taxi; smartphone; acceptance; participatory noise sensing; noise annoyance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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