[Insight] What is needed for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) services to be successfully integrated into urban landscapes? Herve Drevillon, Aviation Project Director at Egis, has some answers! 💡
These days, advanced mobility is one of the hottest topics for Paris, as the city plans to demonstrate eVTOL services at next year's Olympic Games. Robust infrastructure, social acceptance, funding for vertiports, and the creation of zero-emissions mobility ecosystems – these are just a few of the challenges to be addressed collaboratively. Hervé Drevillon tells us: “As the vertiport market is still in its infancy, many challenges and unresolved questions need to be addressed, and these can be condensed into 3 main categories:
👉🏼 Business case: designers and future operators of vertiports understand that drone and eVTOL operators will need very efficient infrastructure to minimise the time their vehicles spend on the ground. In dense, urban areas, available locations are at a premium, but vertiport operators will be challenged. Therefore, optimisation starts from the design of the vertiport and Urban-Air Port, who we recently announced a collaboration with, have demonstrated their understanding of these issues with their compact design.
👉🏼 Acceptance: this will clearly be the key to unlocking the potential of the AAM market. As the saying goes, seeing is believing and Urban-Air Port have perfectly understood the benefits of engaging with the public and local communities, as shown by the demonstration they organised in Coventry (UK) last year.
👉🏼 Technical: many technical questions arise when designing a vertiport, related to structures, energy, security, firefighting to name a few, and today, there is still a need for standards and requirements in many areas. But as engineers, I’m confident we have the experience required to tackle these and the whole AAM community has a clear roadmap to work on these topics. So, it is only a matter of time before the technical framework for vertiports is fully defined.
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👨💻 Passenger processing: Hyper-personalisation is enabling airports and their airline partners to take a more data-driven approach.
⬆ View from the top: ACI World - Airports Council International's Director General, Luis Felipe de Oliveira, on the challenge of creating a new golden era for the airport sector.
💺 Seating and furnishing: Beam seating has dominated airport gates for decades, but rising demand for flexible seating options is forcing airports to get creative. Elena Lodge reports.
🛬 Ground handling: The return to growth in air traffic is driving investment in ground handling services worldwide. Aimée Turner takes a closer look.
🚦 ATC training: Digital air traffic control towers are becoming more common as part of the quest for greater efficiency. Alan Dron reports.
✈ Urban air mobility: Chloe Greenbank looks at how vertiport infrastructure holds the key to integrating eVTOL flights into urban areas.
Featuring:
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Elfly Group
Intelligent Track Systems
NATS
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Kusch+Co
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Head of Air Mobility Initiative at Airbus
1wThank you so much for your partnership support Ivonne Kuger, Lutz Weisser, Adam Symalla and the contributions from your teams!