The first airport for flying taxis will be inaugurated in
England from 2021
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Coventry, which has already been voted “best English city”
for electric cars, will host the first transport hub dedicated to eVTOL
(electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft) and drones. A 180-degree turn
in the direction of air mobility, and a first take-off scheduled for this year.
Will 2021 be the year of flying taxis? The question is
valid. In Île-de-France for example, the RATP plans to fly taxis from June .
These are the first tests intended to make Parisian traffic more fluid in
anticipation of the 2024 Olympic Games.
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But it is in England, and more precisely in Coventry in the
center of the country, that all eyes are on. Why ? Because the city, in
collaboration with the British government, has unveiled the images of its first
airport dedicated to flying taxis and vertical take-off and landing drones
(eVTOL). This “hub” dedicated to the development of air mobility, called Air
One, will be managed by the specialist company Urban-Air Port . The latter won
the government's call for tenders (the Future Flight Challenge) to develop
aeronautical infrastructures and systems for future air, electric and
autonomous vehicles.
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An airport kit . It must be said that the vision of Urban-Air Port helps to project into a future where these flying machines will be part of our daily lives. The company has imagined its airports as modular infrastructures (in kit form) that are easy to install in a few days. They have been designed to take up as little space as possible (60% less space compared to a lambda heliport) while having the services necessary for the proper functioning of an air mobility hub: air traffic control, recharging or passenger management ( see this presentation video to better understand). These are the same technologies and infrastructures that the company intends to deploy in Coventry, in order to increase the potential of eVTOL to reduce CO2 emissions and make connections between cities more fluid.
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For their part, the University of Coventry, the National
Transport Design Center as well as the Institute for Future Transport and
Cities, all based in Coventry, will benefit from the first tests, which should
begin this year, to analyze various mechanisms, in particular the “Customer
journey” (arrival, check-in and boarding) as well as the possible dangers
associated with this activity. To carry out these studies, the institutions
will be based on virtual reality as well as on tests in real conditions, as
specified in this article .
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For Urban-Air Port, this will be its first real “hard”
construction, and therefore a first full-scale test. After Coventry, the
company intends to install 200 of its runway less mini-airports around the world
by 2026. Five years to convince cities that the future of mobility will lie in
the air.
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