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There appears to be significant overlap between these concepts, although it's not clear to me which article should be the merge target. For instance, Urban air mobility lists CityAirbus as an example of a company pursuing Urban air mobility projects; CityAirbus meanwhile describes its services as being Air taxi services. A joint Google scholar search would also suggest that these terms are, if not strictly interchangeable, then highly related and often overlapping. signed, Rosguilltalk22:11, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Of course both subjects, Urban Air Mobility and Air taxi are similar, but different at the same time. UAM has the bigger band width, but Air taxi is the older theme. Air taxi concerns mainly the transport of people via aircraft and UAM is for carrying everything, people and cargo and for new structures and concepts concerning traffic and jam in the cities. There’s an important fact, the new inventions in aerospace, the eVTOLs and the involvement of city development and the European Urban Air Mobility Initiative / European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities, which are more than just air taxi. In German Wikipedia the difference is clear, so there are two different articles since months.
For my opinion both lemmas should remain, because they are about a similar subject, but two different parts or aspects of it. Let’s discuss and see what other Wikipedeans think about it.--Leo067 (talk) 06:03, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, having given it a second read, I'm left with the impression that air taxis generally seem to be for longer hauls than urban air mobility, in which case they should be separate articles after all. I have a sneaking suspicion that if urban air mobility ever catches on at scale it will eventually be called air taxi, but that's not relevant to what the articles should be named right now. signed, Rosguilltalk06:29, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I inserted a mention of flying cars into the History section, but surely this article should be more tightly bound to that one? And there are related issues with differences in the stated relationship between the terms 'flying car' and 'personal air vehicle' within those two articles. - 116.48.100.214 (talk) 15:37, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
