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Why Urban Air Mobility?

The discussion surrounding the future of logistics and transport comes with an important question: How can more people and packages move in and around cities – through point-to-point flights, bypassing ground congestion and with shorter journey times, while meeting the goal of decarbonising cities and offering smart and sustainable mobility solutions?

Enabled by recent advances in technology, urban air mobility or UAM may offer a smart and sustainable mobility solution. UAM is also an important challenge for U-space, the European Commission’s initiative for safe and secure integration of drones and other autonomous aircraft into our airspace.

U-space and UAM will see a rapid increase in research, innovation and implementation

Need for a harmonised approach for the integration of UAM into the airspace

UAM refers to an ecosystem that enables on-demand, highly automated, passenger or cargo-carrying air transport services with particular reference to the urban and sub-urban environments, where aviation is often highly regulated today. The expectation is to have safe, secure, green and acceptable UAM solutions deployed by 2025-2030 to exploit seamless freight, emergency, security and mobility services.

The UAM industry has a significant potential for growth and it has been estimated that by 2035 around 23,000 UAM/eVTOL will be serving a global market worth some €60bn. Of course, progress is never a straight line, especially when the technological, regulatory and industry transformation is as significant as introducing a new transport system.

The UAM challenges can only be met through an evolutionary development process.

CORUS-XUAM Project Objectives

A Word from the Project Leader

Urban air mobility is the realisation of a dream enabled by advances in technology that has the potential to revolutionise the way people and packages move in and around cities by enabling green and sustainable mobility. We at the EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub are thrilled to have the opportunity to coordinate an expert group representing the research and innovation arms of the air traffic management, unmanned aircraft systems and UAM industries to advance the adoption of UAM in Europe.

Giancarlo Ferrara, CORUS-XUAM Project Leader, EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub

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