Wisk Drives Responsible AAM Deployment with Data-Driven Microsimulation Software

Wisk Aero has released its lat­est whitepa­per, which details its sim­u­la­tion, coor­di­na­tion, opti­mi­sa­tion, plan­ning and engage­ment (Scope) pro­pri­etary, data-dri­ven, microsim­u­la­tion plat­form.

Scope pro­vides insights to enable effi­cient, thought­ful, and respon­si­ble deploy­ment of advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) with­in a giv­en geo­graph­ic area. It also allows Wisk to bet­ter under­stand and inform infra­struc­ture and pol­i­cy devel­op­ment and build stronger part­ner­ships with indus­try and com­mu­ni­ties.

Wisk CEO Gary Gysin said: “At Wisk, we want our future ser­vices to be avail­able, acces­si­ble, and use­ful to every­one, from col­lege stu­dents to exec­u­tives.

“Scope pro­vides us with the crit­i­cal insights need­ed to make informed, data-dri­ven deci­sions and ensure that future ser­vices have a pos­i­tive and mean­ing­ful impact for local com­mu­ni­ties.”

Pow­ered by gran­u­lar trav­el-demand data, machine learn­ing, and large-scale graph­ic pro­cess­ing unit par­al­leli­sa­tion, Scope can cre­ate com­plex sim­u­la­tions and devel­op mod­els to help sup­port part­ner engage­ment for tech­nol­o­gy, city and local gov­ern­ment, and local com­mu­ni­ties.

It pro­vides guid­ance on the devel­op­ment of AAM infra­struc­ture, informs route and net­work plan­ning rec­om­men­da­tions, and accom­mo­dates sus­tain­abil­i­ty and equi­ty con­sid­er­a­tions across diverse sociode­mo­graph­ics and mar­kets.

Scope can more accu­rate­ly pre­dict poten­tial eco­nom­ic and finan­cial impacts, and inform inter­nal strate­gic busi­ness deci­sions, engi­neer­ing strat­e­gy, and Con­cept of Oper­a­tions (ConOps) devel­op­ment.

Wisk head of prod­uct intel­li­gence and sys­tems sim­u­la­tion Pavan Yedaval­li added: “It is crit­i­cal for com­pa­nies and their city part­ners to lever­age advanced mod­el­ing and sim­u­la­tion tools to ensure the respon­si­ble and equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion of AAM ser­vices,”.

“Scope can sim­u­late mil­lions of real-world trips and mod­el trav­el behav­iour in met­ro­pol­i­tan areas across the world, while also mea­sur­ing the impact of AAM inte­gra­tion into the local trans­porta­tion net­work.

“The data gath­ered from these sim­u­la­tions are then used to inform and refine our strat­e­gy and ensure that we are mak­ing deci­sions that ben­e­fit the com­mu­ni­ties that we serve.”

Scope is pow­ered by data and inputs from mul­ti­ple sources, includ­ing the Otonomo vehi­cle data mar­ket plat­form, which com­bined with Wisk’s SCOPE plat­form pro­pri­etary algo­rithms, help trans­late qual­i­ta­tive inputs into quan­ti­ta­tive insights for AAM inte­gra­tion.

Last month, Wisk Aero part­nered with the Coun­cil of May­ors of South East Queens­land to intro­duce a safe, sus­tain­able, and scal­able, autonomous air taxi ser­vice.

In April, Wisk Aero and Sky­ports part­nered to inte­grate autonomous eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions at ver­ti­ports, in what is said to mark the first col­lab­o­ra­tion between a ver­ti­port devel­op­er and an autonomous eVTOL devel­op­er in the USA.