UAM infrastructure

VI&E Solutions partners with PowerUp America to electrify aviation infrastructure

Volatus Infrastructure & Energy Solutions has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Tennessee-based sustainable transportation solutions company, PowerUp America. Together, VI&E Solutions and PowerUp America say they will collaborate to electrify the infrastructure […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

ITA Airways, Airbus, UrbanV and Enel partner to develop Advanced Air Mobility ecosystem in Italy

ITA Airways, Airbus, UrbanV and Enel have announced they are partnering to promote and develop the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) ecosystem in Italy. The companies say the collaboration aims to promote this new disruptive technology and the […]

Vertiports

New UK study identifies social, economic and societal benefits that vertiports will bring to communities

The UK’s Connected Place Catapult research agency has published a study Vertiports: Incidental economic, social and environmental benefits to local economies which identifies the incidental benefits that vertiports will bring to local communities. According to […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Lilium and Fraport partner to provide eVTOL infrastructure at airports

Airport operator Fraport and Lilium N.V. have announced their strategic collaboration to explore required planning and approval steps for state-of-the-art infrastructure for the implementation of commercial eVTOL operations at airports. Fraport is active at 30 […]

Vertiports

“Vertiports will need greater FATO safety areas than currently recommended” – new study

A new research paper from Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation Division, authored by David Ison (“Compatible Land Use for Heliports and Vertiports: A Safety Perspective”) suggests that eVTOL operations will require greater final approach […]