We are pleased to invite you to read our selected papers published in Drones (ISSN: 2504-446X) in the “Innovative Urban Mobility” Section, which are listed below:

1. “Towards Safe and Efficient Unmanned Aircraft System Operations: Literature Review of Digital Twins’ Applications and European Union Regulatory Compliance”
by Elham Fakhraian, Elham Fakhraian, Ivana Semanjski, Silvio Semanjski and El-Houssaine Aghezzaf
Drones 2023, 7(7), 478; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7070478
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/7/7/478

2. “Assuring Safe and Efficient Operation of UAV Using Explainable Machine Learning”
by Abdulrahman Alharbi, Ivan Petrunin and Dimitrios Panagiotakopoulos
Drones 2023, 7(5), 327; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7050327
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/7/5/327

3. “Urban Air Mobility Communications and Networking: Recent Advances, Techniques, and Challenges”
by Muhammad Yeasir Arafat and Sungbum Pan
Drones 2024, 8(12), 702; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8120702
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/12/702

4. “Advanced Air Mobility and Evolution of Mobile Networks”
by Lechosław Tomaszewski and Robert Kołakowski
Drones 2023, 7(9), 556; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7090556
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/7/9/556

5. “An Operational Capacity Assessment Method for an Urban Low-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Logistics Route Network”
by Jia Yi, Honghai Zhang, Fei Wang, Changyuan Ning, Hao Liu and Gang Zhong
Drones 2023, 7(9), 582; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7090582
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/7/9/582

6. “Deep Learning Architecture for UAV Traffic-Density Prediction”
by Abdulrahman Alharbi, Ivan Petrunin and Dimitrios Panagiotakopoulos
Drones 2023, 7(2), 78; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7020078
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/7/2/78

7. “Fed4UL: A Cloud–Edge–End Collaborative Federated Learning Framework for Addressing the Non-IID Data Issue in UAV Logistics”
by Chong Zhang, Xiao Liu, Aiting Yao, Jun Bai, Chengzu Don, Shantanu Pal and Frank Jiang
Drones 2024, 8(7), 312; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8070312
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/7/312

8. “Optimizing Drone Logistics: A Scoring Algorithm for Enhanced Decision Making across Diverse Domains in Drone Airlines”
by Diyar Altinses, David Orlando Salazar Torres, Michael Schwung, Stefan Lier and Andreas Schwung
Drones 2024, 8(7), 307; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8070307
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/7/307

9. “Autonomous Vehicles Traversability Mapping Fusing Semantic–Geometric in Off-Road Navigation”
by Bo Zhang, Weili Chen, Chaoming Xu, Jinshi Qiu and Shiyu Chen
Drones 2024, 8(9), 496; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8090496
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/9/496