UrbanV Ready to Launch Air Mobility with AWS
A leading Vertiport company, UrbanV, is to collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a city-wide infrastructure for eVTOLs with first flights expected in Rome by 2025, reports a press release. AWS has been selected as the cloud provider and support.
UrbanV is aiming to develop and operate its own networks of vertiports, to be employed by flying taxis to transport passengers within city centres. This enables the company to leverage AWS expertise as a global cloud provider for airlines and airports. It will assist with developing an innovative and scalable operating model for vertiports which can be expanded internationally over the next few years.
Carlo Tursi, CEO of UrbanV, commented, “Our vision for electric urban air travel focuses on reinventing the flying experience. Within AWS, we recognised the ideal cloud partner to turn this vision into a reality.” He continued, “Their unrivalled experience in the airline industry gives them a profound understanding of the sector and, furthermore, their thirst for innovation makes them the ideal partner to create new possibilities.”


The release states, “UrbanV has set itself the ambitious goal of launching its first eVTOL service from Rome Fiumicino Airport to central Rome by the end of 2024, ready to transport visitors arriving in the city to attend the Jubilee in 2025. From 2026 onwards, Rome’s network will expand to 10 vertiports, allowing for fast, traffic-free travel between popular transit hubs and tourist destinations.”
UrbanV will also open vertiport networks in Venice, Bologna and on the French Riviera, providing travellers with more rapid and sustainable alternatives to busy city streets and traditional means of transport. Over the next five years, the company aims to invest several hundred million euros in the expansion of its model on a European and global scale.
Amazon Web Services will play “a key role in the development of the operating model for UrbanV vertiports.” The cloud technology will automate the passenger experience, making “check-in operations and security checks straight-forward, while reducing the need for space and enabling the vertiports themselves to integrate into urban areas.” Passengers are to receive customised updates in real time, with travel plans that will automatically adjust if connecting flights are delayed.
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