Phase 2 —
Assessing Readiness

Evaluate your community’s current infrastructure, policies, stakeholders, and public awareness to determine its readiness for AAM planning and deployment.

Evaluating AAM Readiness and Community Needs


You may be an elected official, planner, airport sponsor, board member, economic development professional, emergency manager, or public agency staff member who has heard about Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and wants a basic understanding of what it is and why communities are discussing it.

You do not need a technical aviation background to use this toolkit. These resources provide a starting point and help direct you to the information most relevant to your role and interests.

Use the resources below to explore different "doorway" briefs into AAM planning and readiness. Whether you are evaluating community needs and priorities, considering airport or vertiport development opportunities, assessing infrastructure requirements, or building foundational knowledge about AAM, these resources can help you identify where to begin and what factors may be most relevant to your community.

Featured Resources

Doorway Brief

I Need to Understand AAM

Doorway Brief

Should Our Community Be Paying Attention?

Doorway Brief

My Community Has Concerns

Doorway Brief

We Want to Attract Service, Operators, or Investment

Doorway Brief

We Have Existing Aviation Infrastructure

Doorway Brief

We Want to Develop a Drone Facility

Doorway Brief

We Want to Develop an Airport

Doorway Brief

We Want to Develop a Vertiport

Implementation Roadmap

Your Advanced Air Mobility journey — step by step

New to advanced air mobility planning? Follow the guided roadmap below through each phase of adoption. Select any phase to explore tools, checklists, and resources tailored to where you are.

Phase 1 — Understanding AAM

Learn the fundamentals of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), including eVTOL aircraft, drones, air taxis, and emerging use cases that could transform transportation and logistics. 

Learn

Phase 2 — Assessing Readiness

Evaluate your community’s current infrastructure, policies, stakeholders, and public awareness to determine its readiness for AAM planning and deployment.


Assess

Phase 3 — Roles & Responsibility Alignment

Bring together key partners, align local efforts with state initiatives, and identify policy updates needed to support future AAM operations.



Align

Phase 4 — Planning & Site Development

Identify potential vertiport locations, assess policy and regulatory considerations, engage stakeholders, and develop plans that align AAM infrastructure with local transportation and infrastructure strategies.

Plan

Phase 5 — Policy & Community Frameworks

Explore ordinances, land use and zoning, noise and environmental planning, public safety, and emergency preparedness, to guide integration aligned with local priorities.


Develop

Phase 6 — Implementation

Prepare for the transition from planning to deployment by exploring funding opportunities, partnership models, infrastructure development, and operational considerations.

Operate