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Eve Air Mobility, Skyports, L3Harris Technologies and CAMI to work on initial Concept of Operations in Miami-Dade County

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has formed a con­sor­tium of lead­ing Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) organ­i­sa­tions and tech­nol­o­gy enablers to devel­op a Con­cept of Oper­a­tions for ser­vices between Mia­mi Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (MIA) and the Mia­mi Beach Con­ven­tion Cen­tre.

The con­sor­tium — which fea­tures Sky­ports, L3Harris Tech­nolo­gies and the Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI) — exam­ined the ecosys­tem required for both pas­sen­ger and vehi­cle jour­neys, received valu­able insights and feed­back from stake­hold­ers across Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty, and accessed local­ly, pub­licly avail­able infor­ma­tion.

The data were used to estab­lish a foun­da­tion­al under­stand­ing of how urban air mobil­i­ty could safe­ly sup­port an air­port shut­tle use case in the coun­ty.

Andre Stein, co-CEO of Eve, said: “Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty and Flori­da present a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for Eve to cre­ate a blue­print that can be repli­cat­ed in mar­kets in North Amer­i­ca and oth­er regions as we look toward the intro­duc­tion of UAM oper­a­tions. Eve and the con­sor­tium have gained valu­able insights into how best we, and our peers, can pre­pare the ecosys­tem to launch and scale safe­ly. We are excit­ed to con­tin­ue work­ing with all stake­hold­ers in Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty and the com­mu­ni­ty on the next phas­es of this con­cept of oper­a­tions.”

Each of the con­sor­tium part­ners has been play­ing an essen­tial role with­in this col­lab­o­ra­tion. Sky­ports designs, builds, and oper­ates take-off and land­ing infra­struc­tures for UAM air­craft, L3Harris inte­grates next-gen­er­a­tion Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment (ATM) tech­nolo­gies to enable UAM oper­a­tions and CAMI sup­ports the respon­si­ble inte­gra­tion of urban air mobil­i­ty into com­mu­ni­ties.

The con­sor­tium is now seek­ing com­mu­ni­ty input on the first phase of this CONOPS and will hold var­i­ous ‘lis­ten and learn’ ses­sions with com­mu­ni­ty stake­hold­ers, our peers, and poten­tial oper­a­tors to exam­ine how addi­tion­al pro­ce­dures and frame­works can be devel­oped in the com­ing months and years to facil­i­tate the suc­cess­ful adop­tion of UAM oper­a­tions in Mia­mi-Dade. 

This feed­back will allow the con­sor­tium to bet­ter under­stand Miami-Dade’s unique oper­at­ing envi­ron­ment, estab­lish a more detailed flight pro­file, address com­mu­ni­ty con­cerns, and deter­mine how charg­ing infra­struc­ture for eVTOL air­craft can be safe­ly built into a future UAM ecosys­tem.

Dun­can Walk­er, CEO of Sky­ports, added: “Sky­ports is proud to part­ner with this con­sor­tium and com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers to con­tribute our infra­struc­ture knowl­edge to the future of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty in Mia­mi-Dade. We believe this study is an impor­tant first step to work­ing with the com­mu­ni­ty as well as local indus­try to ensure ver­ti­ports can be deliv­ered with strong local sup­port.

“As Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty begins prepa­ra­tion for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions in the com­ing years we look for­ward to work­ing with local and state lead­ers to make this a real­i­ty.”

Fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the lis­ten-and-learn peri­od, which is expect­ed to last until June 30th, the team will incor­po­rate the community’s input and present the find­ings to the coun­ty and pub­lic stake­hold­ers lat­er this sum­mer.

Feed­back and requests to speak with the team can be addressed to Contact@EveAirMobility.com.You can down­load a copy of the ConOps by click­ing here.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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