Publication Date
10-12-2025
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Applied Sciences Switzerland
Volume
15
Issue
20
DOI
10.3390/app152010961
Abstract
Vertiports, as the foundational ground infrastructure for Urban Air Mobility (UAM), have garnered increasing scholarly attention in recent years. To examine how the existing literature has reviewed and summarized vertiport-related knowledge, this study conducts a bibliometric analysis of publications (2000–2024) from four major databases, including Web of Science and Scopus, using VOSviewer and CiteSpace. By analyzing co-citation and keyword co-occurrence patterns, the results suggest that vertiport research frontiers are shifting toward facility location, network planning, airspace and scheduling management, scalable infrastructure, and integration with ground transport systems. Scholars and institutions in the United States, China, Europe, and South Korea have taken leading roles in advancing this field, though collaboration among research organizations still requires strengthening. Overall, the findings reveal future research pathways and provide support for the planning and integration of vertiport infrastructure in UAM operations.
Funding Number
52572358
Funding Sponsor
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Keywords
knowledge mapping, research trends, urban air mobility (UAM), vertiport infrastructure
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Aviation and Technology
Recommended Citation
Yannan Lu, Weili Zeng, Wenbin Wei, Weiwei Wu, and Hao Jiang. "Urban Air Mobility Vertiports: A Bibliometric Analysis of Applications, Challenges, and Emerging Directions" Applied Sciences Switzerland (2025). https://doi.org/10.3390/app152010961
