Community Air Mobility Initiative adds seven new members and launches next cohort of its Urban Air Policy Collaborative
The Community Air Mobility Initiative (CAMI) has welcomed seven new members and expanded the support for its mission to responsibly integrate air mobility at state and local levels.
They include Arup, an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants and technical specialists, the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium (CAAM), environmental and transportation planning consultants HMMH and eVTOL aircraft developer Wisk.
As well as companies involved in the emerging eVTOL space, new members also include the City of San Jose, Los Angeles Department of Transportation and Helicopter Association International.
CAMI believes its mission is best served with support from a broad spectrum of stakeholders, which enables the development of publicly available resources and ongoing programmes in collaboration, communication and education.
Anna Mracek Dietrich, CAMI’s Director of Industry & Strategy, said: “By combining perspectives and sharing resources we can co-create a vision of the future of transportation that is sustainable, equitable, and successful. Our members make this possible.”
Commenting on joining CAMI, Wisk’s VP of Global Partnerships, Dan Dalton added: “We are excited to join CAMI and help further build out the AAM/UAM ecosystem, not only on the ground, but in the air.
“Wisk’s technical understanding of autonomous eVTOL aircraft, coupled with our demonstrated ability to listen to communities, makes our partnership with CAMI a critical step in advancing the conversation between eVTOL manufacturers and ground communities. We look forward to collaborating with CAMI and its other members to educate and communicate the value and importance of sustainable and equitable urban air mobility integration.”
Additionally, CAMI’s Urban Air Policy Collaborative (UAPC) has launched its second cohort of public agencies, which will work together to develop a framework of policies and best practices for the local implementation of advanced air mobility.
This will be done through the sharing of knowledge, discussion of issues, development of recommendation and collaboration with peers through an ongoing programme of conversations, presentations and workshops.
This second cohort consists of planners and decision makers from across Canada and the USA, which includes the cities of Orlando and San Jose, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Ohio Department of Transportation and Marina Municipal Airport in California. This follows the first cohort, which started in July 2020, includes departments of transportations in the US states of Georgia, Massachusetts and North Carolina.
Yolanka Wulff, Executive Director of CAMI, added: “As the industry matures the technologies needed to bring electric aircraft into communities, the need to bridge the work of the industry with the local communities where this technology will be implemented is becoming ever more acute.
“CAMI understands the importance of working with all of the stakeholders to develop a vision for advanced air mobility that benefits as many community members as possible and is an integral part of our transportation systems and daily lives.”
Wulff talked to eVTOL Insights about the UAPC cohorts in more detail at the end of last year, and was also a guest in our popular series of podcasts.
For more information on participating in a future cohort, visit www.communityairmobility.org or email contact@communityairmobility.org.