AAMSim: A Comprehensive Simulation Platform for Efficient and Sustainable AAM Systems

Advantages

  • Agent-based microsimulation of advanced air mobility operations
  • Models passenger and eVTOL behavior at high fidelity within vertiports and different flight phases of eVTOL
  • Enables system-wide AAM performance evaluation beyond isolated corridor or vertiport studies
  • Dashboard has been designed to reveal agent- and system- level performance metrics, which can be easily customized to reflect potential users’ needs
  • Integrates external optimization and AI algorithms through open APIs for real-time testing
  • Supports scalable network planning with customizable vertiports, fleets, and demand inputs

Summary

Current Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) simulation tools focus on isolated components such as airspace, vertiport sitting, or scheduling, lacking system-wide operational realism. Many platforms cannot accurately model passenger and eVTOL interactions inside vertiports or integrate external optimization algorithms. This limits stakeholders’ ability to evaluate operational strategies, identify bottlenecks, and assess scalability before real-world deployment.

AAMSim is a high-fidelity, multi-agent simulation platform designed to evaluate end-to-end AAM system operations. Built on an event-driven architecture, it models passenger flows, eVTOL movements, and vertiport dynamics while enabling seamless integration of external optimization strategies. The platform supports customizable networks, real-time performance metrics, and scenario-based analysis for operators, researchers, and policymakers.

High-level system architecture of the AAMSim platform showing core simulation agents, event-driven interactions, and externally configurable inputs.

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