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advanced air ability or aam is nasa's vision to integrate new forms of transportation

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into our existing airspace system in a safe and accessible manner these new vehicle configurations

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that are coming online enable people and cargo to be transported in new ways one area the nasa

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team is researching is infrastructure when we typically think of infrastructure we think of

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roads and highways now take that concept and apply it to the air above us you can imagine these new

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vehicles traversing across a network of routes in which these routes would enable or allow landing

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at vertiports that may be located at airports but they also may be located in our city centers aem

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research and infrastructure includes both physical infrastructure as well as digital infrastructure

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and what we're attempting to research are not only what are the new areas of infrastructure that need

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to be built to enable this aam ecosystem but also how existing infrastructure needs to evolve to

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support these new vehicle configurations coming online in regards to physical infrastructure we

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are trying to understand the virtaport surface that is being developed to enable safe landing

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of these vehicles and on the digital side we're working to understand what are the digital

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communication networks that are required to enable communication between vehicles and airspace

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services that are coming online the nasa team is conducting tests with an aam represented vehicle

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such as a helicopter in order to understand how that vehicle could land at a prototype vertiport

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the next phase of infrastructure research involves working with vehicle partners that have electric

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vertical takeoff and landing vehicles that are capable of interacting with some of the

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prototype surfaces that we have developed in addition we're conducting simulations to

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understand the digital information that would be required to be sent between these providers

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so in order for aam to become a reality the infrastructure components both physical and

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digital really need to develop and exist to enable this industry to come to life