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  • S. Kuba, &  Akbas, I.M. (2025). Congestion and Efficiency Analysis of Florida Airspace for Optimizing Advanced Air Mobility and Space Launch Operations. Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), December, Orlando, Florida.
  • Pinto, J., Lave, J., Sauer, J., Munoz-Esparza, D., Boehnert, J., Wilson, M., de Boer, G., Bailey, S., Adkins, K., De Wekker, S., Bland, G., Houston, A., Smith, E., & Jacob, J. (2025). Evaluation of Building-Resolving Simulations Using Observations from the ISARRA microSCALES Field Campaign. 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology of the American Meteorological Society, 105th AMS Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
  • Lange, R., Rice, S., Wallace, R. J., Winter, S. R., Vasquez, M., Woods, S. (2024). Creation of a system taxonomy for advanced air mobility operations. Drone Systems and Applications, 12, 1-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/dsa-2024-0013
  • Vempati, L., Gawron, V., & Winter, S. R. (2024). Advanced air mobility: A systematic review of human factors scientific publications and policy. Journal of Air Transportation, 32(1), 22-33. doi: 10.2514/1.D0366
  • Winter, S. R., Rice, S., Crouse, S. R., & Wallace, R. J. (2024). The impacts of accident count and vehicle length of time in service on consumer’s willingness to fly in autonomous air taxis. 27th Air Transport Research Society’s World Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Compere, M., Adkins, K., Muthu Krishnan, A., Schroeder, R., and James, C. (2024). The Mobility Virtual Environment (MoVE): an Open Source Framework for Gathering and Visualizing Atmospheric Observations Using Multiple Vehicle-Based Sensors, Environ. Sci.: Atmos., 4, 214-232. doi.org/10.1039/D2EA00106C.
  • Krishnan, A.M., Compere, M., and Adkins, K. (2024). The Wind-Arc Method: Estimating the Wind Using the Vehicle as a Sensor. 9th Conference of the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely-piloted Aircraft, Tulsa, OK.
  • Abdullah, Q., Adkins, K., Davis, J., and Macchiarella, N. (2024). Transportation Applications for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
  • Adkins, K., Compere, M., Krishnan, A.M., Macchiarella, N., Becker, W., Ayyalasomayajula, S., Lavenstein, S., Vlachou, K., and Miller, D. (2023). Validation of the GUMP Hyperlocal Forecasting Tool Using Meteorologically Instrumented Uncrewed Aircraft, 8th Conference of the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely-piloted Aircraft, Bergen, Norway.
  • Vempati, L., Myers, P., & Winter, S. R. (2023). The technology readiness and acceptance model as a predictor of pilots’ willingness to operate in UAM integrated airspace. The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, 33(4), 288-306. Doi: 10.1080/24721840.2023.2242397
  • Winter, S. R., Crouse, S. R., Wallace, R. J., Rice, S. & Friedenzohn, D. (2023). The importance of reliability for consumer acceptance of advanced air mobility. 26th Air Transport Research Society’s World Conference, Kobe, Japan.
  • Adkins, K., Becker, W., Ayyalasomayajula, S., Lavenstein, S., Vlachou, K., Miller, D., Compere, M., Krishnan, A.M., and Macchiarella, N. (2023). Hyperlocal Weather Predictions with the Enhanced General Urban Area Microclimate Predictions Tool. Drones, 7(7):428. doi.org/10.3390/drones7070428.
  • Compere, M., Adkins, K., and Muthu Krishnan, A. (2023). Go with the Flow: Estimating Wind Using Uncrewed Aircraft. Drones 2023, 7, 564. doi.org/10.3390/drones7090564.
  • Gonzalez Nunez, J. A. & Akbas, M. I. (2023). Crowdsensing of Meteorological Data for Safety and Efficiency of Unmanned Aerial Traffic in Urban Environment. Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Paper No. 23382, Orlando, Florida.
  • Gonzalez Nunez, J. A. & Akbas, M. I. (2023). Demo: Agent-Based Crowdsensing Simulation for Urban Meteorological Data Collection and Hybrid Aerial-Terrestrial Route Determination. IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN), Daytona Beach, Florida. doi: 10.1109/LCN58197.2023.10223330.
  • Rice, S., Winter, S. R., Crouse, S., & Ruskin, K. J. (2022). Vertiport and air taxi features valued by consumers in the United States and India. Case Studies in Transport Policy, 10, 500-506.
  • Oseguada, L., and Akbas, M. I. (2022). Using Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation to Evaluate Collision Avoidance in UAS Swarms. Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC).
  • Vempati, L., Woods, S., & Winter, S. R. (2021). Pilots’ willingness to operate in urban air mobility integrated airspace: A moderated mediation analysis. Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, 10(1), 59-76.
  • Akbas, M., Adkins, K., and Compere, M. (2021). Real-Time Urban Observations for Aviation, Proceedings of the 2021 AIAA Aviation Forum. doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-2359.
  • Vempati, L., Winter, S. R., Rice, S., Gawron, V., & Robbins, J. M. (2021). Pilots’ willingness to operate in unmanned aircraft system integrated airspace. The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, 31(4), 343-359. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/24721840.2021.1896365
  • Ward, K. A., Winter, S. R., Cross, D. S., Robbins, J. M., Mehta, R., Doherty, S., & Rice, S. (2021). Safety systems, culture, and willingness to fly in autonomous air taxis: A multi-study and mediation analysis. The Journal of Air Transport Management, 91, 101975.
  • Muna, S. I., Mukherjee, S., Namuduri, K., Compere, M., Akbas, M. I., Molnár, P., & Subramanian, R. (2021). Air corridors: Concept, design, simulation, and rules of engagement. Sensors, 21(22), Article 7536. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21227536
  • Vaughn, A., Winter, S. R., Rice, S., & Crouse, S. R. (2021). Consumer’s willingness to support urban air mobility in response to natural disasters. Presentation at the 24th Air Transport Research Society’s World Conference, Sydney, Australia.
  • Adkins, K. (2021). Are We Clear for Launch: Preparations for the Coming of Advanced Air Mobility, DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase, Deland, FL.
  • Adkins, K. (2021). Weather Alert: Tech Needs for AAM and UAS, National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (BACE), Las Vegas, NV.
  • Adkins, K., Compere, M., and Krishnan, A. (2021). MoVE: A Mobility Virtual Environment for Planning, Rehearsing, Collecting and Visualizing Atmospheric Observations Using Multiple Mobile Sensors, 21st Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2021, New Orleans, LA.
  • Winter, S. R., Rice, S., & Lamb, T. L. (2020). A prediction model of consumer’s willingness to fly in autonomous air taxis. Journal of Air Transport Management, 89, 101926.
  • Adkins, K., Akbas, M., and Compere, M. (2020). Real-Time Urban Weather Observations for Urban Air Mobility, International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 7(4).
  • Adkins, K., Wambolt, P., Sescu, A., Swinford, C., and Macchiarella, N.D. (2020). Observational Practices for Urban Microclimates Using Meteorologically Instrumented Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Atmosphere, 11, 1008. doi.org/10.3390/atmos11091008.
  • Lamb, T. L., Ragbir, N. K., Winter, S. R., & Rice, S. (2020). The impact of accident severity on trust and willingness to ride in driverless vehicles and autonomous air taxis. Poster at the 2020 Human Factors and Applied Psychology Conference, Orlando, Florida.
  • Winter, S. R. & Rice, S. (2019). A prediction model of consumer's willingness to fly in autonomous air taxis. 23rd Air Transport Research Society World Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Compere, M., Adkins, K., Legon, O., and Currier, P. (2019). MoVE: A Mobility Virtual Environment for Testing Multi-Vehicle Scenarios, Proceedings of the 2019 NDIA Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium. http://gvsets.ndia-mich.org/publication.php?documentID=721
  • Ward, K. A., Winter, S. R., & Rice, S. (2019). Aircraft systems and passenger willingness to fly in autonomous air taxis. Poster presented at the 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Washington, D.C.
  • Adkins, K. (2019). Urban Flow and Small Unmanned Aerial System Operations in the Built Environment, International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, vol. 6.1. doi.org/10.15394/ijaaa.2019.1312.
  • ‘Drones in Cities: The Future of Urban Air Mobility’, Pix4D Featured Case Study, September 2019. https://www.pix4d.com/blog/city-drones-urban-air-mobility
  • ‘Urban Drone Flight over Kosovo Offers Rare Insights’, sUAS News, August 2019. https://www.suasnews.com/2019/08/urban-drone-flights-over-kosovo-offer-rare-insights