Government investment

SESAR 3 JU identifies seven research areas to achieve air-ground integration and autonomy

Europe’s air traffic management airspace modernisation research arm, SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking, has released a multiannual work programme from 2022-2031. Two of the nine flagship technological solutions needed to achieve the modernisation and digitalisation of […]

UAM infrastructure

Wisk and Skyports publish joint CONOPS for autonomous UAM vertiport operations

Wisk Aero and Skyports have jointly released a Concept of Operations (ConOps) which identifies how autonomous eVTOL aircraft and operators will integrate with vertiports, including interactions with Providers of Services for UAM (PSUs). The two companies are […]

UAM infrastructure

MySkaut, Giancarlo Zema partner to develop “vertiport/vertistop secure drone nesting structures”

Formenton Security Group and XtraMedium Communications, through their MySkaut venture company, has partnered with the Giancarlo Zema Design Group to combine security guard intervention and innovative aerial robotic safety systems with logistics structures such as […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Korean Air joins urban air mobility research and development led by transportation ministry

Korea’s national flag carrier Korean Air has announced that it is taking part in a government-led research and development project of an urban air mobility surveillance information acquisition system, says a report published by The Korea Herald: […]

Public consultation

ADW 2020: Pan-European Urban Air Mobility Projects & Initiatives Community launched

European-Union funded urban air mobility (UAM) research programmes and supporting partners have formed a new alliance to support the European Commission by bringing together local, national and EU-funded projects, along with initiatives and regulatory bodies […]

UAM infrastructure

Embry-Riddle researching hyperlocal weather-prediction tools for urban drone deliveries

Researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the USA are proving the viability of the hyperlocal weather-prediction tools needed to fly autonomous systems in populated areas by flying small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) along simulated delivery […]