UAM infrastructure Archives - Urban Air Mobility News

Skyports raises £5.35 million in Series A funding

December 6, 2019 Michael Willoughby UAM infrastructure

by Michael Willoughby Skyports, the urban air mobility infrastructure provider and drone delivery operator, has raised £5.35 million in Series A funding. Jointly led by

EVA launches “world’s largest drone control, landing, take-off and charging station”

December 5, 2019 Michael Willoughby UAM infrastructure

by Michael Willoughby UVA-developer, Electronic Visionary Architects, claims to have launched the world’s largest drone control, landing, take-off and charging station. The “Vertical Station” allows

Australia’s Skyportz signs deal with car park association to develop air taxi landing sites nationwide

November 12, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UAM infrastructure

By Michael Doran Australia’s Skyportz is pushing ahead with plans to develop a network of landing sites at major cities in Australia to serve urban

Community Air Mobility Initiative launches to integrated urban air mobility

November 11, 2019 Michael Willoughby UAM infrastructure

by Michael Willoughby The Community Air Mobility Initiative (CAMI) announces its launch with the support of its founding members. CAMI is a new nonprofit industry

Skygates releases image of Dronetower, seeks investment.

October 22, 2019 Michael Willoughby UAM infrastructure

Bjorn-Arild Woll, founder and CEO of Norwegian company, Skygates, has released a 3D render of its Dronetower product which he describes as “infrastructure for UAVs

European Commission, EIB set up investment fund for UAM infrastructure development

October 18, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UAM infrastructure

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) on 17 October announced the launch of a “European Drone Investment – Advisory Platform” to support

Skyports shows render of first-ever full-scale, life-sized vertiport prototype

September 10, 2019 Michael Willoughby UAM infrastructure

Skyports has released a render of the world’s first-ever full-scale, life-sized vertiport prototype. The real thing will be shown at this year’s ITS World Congress

Volocopter will show prototype of VoloPort in Singapore next month

September 3, 2019 Michael Willoughby UAM infrastructure

by Michael Willoughby Volocopter, manufacturer of the “world’s first purely electric flying multicopter” is set to display a full-scale prototype of its VoloPort at the

New Miami condo tower designed to cater for urban air taxis and flying cars

July 12, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UAM infrastructure

The Miami Herald reports that an air taxi/flying car landing and take-off port is nearing completion on top of the city centre 60-story Paramount Miami

“I am 100% confident there is going to be a major revolution with VTOLs in this city” – Clem Newton-Brown of Melbourne’s Skyportz

June 3, 2019 Philip Butterworth-Hayes UAM infrastructure

By Michael Doran In the race to get the world’s first passenger-vehicle urban air mobility service into operation Uber Air is one of the leading