Urban Air Mobility

Guest Post: This article published with permission from our friends at DroneII, Drone Industry Insights. Article authored by Kay Wackwitz. Air taxis, flying cars and eVTOLs are just a number of the popular names currently being used to refer to unmanned vehicles which are being designed to carry humans in …

The Bell Company’s VP of Innovations Scott Drennan has a sense of humor.  “We had jetpacks before Tony Stark,” he tells the audience at his keynote address at London’s Commercial UAV Show.  He’s not really kidding: Bell, while better known for helicopters, started with planes, and have been pioneers in …

One of the reasons that Amsterdam Drone Week is important to the industry is its focus on urban air mobility – the idea that automated VTOL aircraft may play a major role in public transportation systems.  For a beautiful and historic city like Amsterdam, expanding highways is simply not an …

© Brandlab / Skyports / Volocopter / GRAFT Urban air mobility (UAM) is more than just a cool idea.  At drone conferences around the world, UAM is a hot topic as both regulators and communities seek for a way to address an increasingly significant urban problem: traffic.  For many cities …

This week at AUVSI’s Xponential, Textron company Bell Helicopters showed off a prototype of an urban air mobility vehicle – a drone taxi – and we’d ride in one without hesitation. First introduced at this year’s consumer electronics show (CES), the BellNexus is definitely in the prototype stage, although staff …

Airbus – one of several players in the race to make Urban Air Mobility (UAM) a reality – has delved into how open the public is to the idea of getting from A to B using unmanned aircraft. The report can be read in full, here. The study’s headlines are …

  Audi and Airbus took center stage this week at Amsterdam Drone Week, showing off their concept of modular drone taxis with live demos. DRONELIFE at Amsterdam Drone Week, Airbus Prototype Modular Drone Taxi   Amsterdam Drone Week has had a heavy focus on smart cities and smart mobility, exploring …

DRONELIFE at Amsterdam Drone Week, Airbus Prototype Drone Taxi The First UIC^2  – the UAM (Urban Air Mobility) Initiative for Cities and Communities – Forum took place this morning at Amsterdam Drone Week, an international gathering of stakeholders in commercial drones, airspace regulation, and urban air mobility.  Amidst a hall …

Eric Allison, Uber‘s Head of Aviation Programs, says that using drones to solve daily transportation issues is closer than most people think. In an address this morning at the Amsterdam Drone Week conference, Allison says that Uber is getting ready to solve transportation problems in new ways. “We’re inspired by …

NASA drone projects and their acronyms are starting to look like a language of their own – but the agency is moving forward steadily on projects to integrate drones into the airspace for everything from drone taxis to delivery drones. Today, NASA and California-based NextNav annouced that NASA will use …