Moviation and Eve Air Mobility ink deal for first eVTOL urban ATM agreement in South Korea

Movi­a­tion, South Korea’s first Urban Air Mobil­i­ty ser­vice provider, has signed a Let­ter of Intent to pur­chase Eve Air Mobility’s Urban Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment (ATM) solu­tion.

The agree­ment comes as Eve’s Urban ATM con­cept has been adopt­ed as part of Korea’s K‑UAM Grand Chal­lenge. This phased demon­stra­tion pro­gram will test Urban Air Mobil­i­ty vehi­cle safe­ty and traf­fic man­age­ment solu­tions in urban con­di­tions and envi­ron­ments, for suit­abil­i­ty to sup­port com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion with­in the coun­try by 2025.

David Rot­tblatt, vice pres­i­dent of sales and gov­ern­ment affairs at Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, said: “South Korea is one of the first coun­tries to begin lay­ing the ground­work for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty and this col­lab­o­ra­tion with Movi­a­tion will help demon­strate the val­ue of Urban ATM tech­nol­o­gy to safe­ly begin and scale UAM oper­a­tions in Korea.

“Eve’s Urban ATM solu­tion, based on exist­ing air traf­fic con­trol soft­ware for pilot­ed, pas­sen­ger car­ry­ing air­craft, pro­vides ser­vices for air nav­i­ga­tion ser­vice providers, urban author­i­ties, fleet oper­a­tors, ver­ti­port oper­a­tors and oth­er UAM stake­hold­ers.”

From before take-off to after land­ing, the urban air envi­ron­ment will count on inte­grat­ed sys­tems, ser­vices and tech­nolo­gies being devel­oped by Eve to enable the safe launch of an effi­cient and pre­dictable ecosys­tem to sup­port eVTOL oper­a­tions along­side many oth­er air­space users. In the future, the advance­ment of infra­struc­ture and reg­u­la­tion will rely on these net­work man­age­ment ser­vices to enable autonomous flight.

Eve’s soft­ware solu­tion will be a key enabler to the imple­men­ta­tion and scal­a­bil­i­ty of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) and pro­vides crit­i­cal traf­fic man­age­ment ser­vices that will play an essen­tial role in enabling the glob­al mar­ket to scale.

Movi­a­tion is a pio­neer of a new mobil­i­ty indus­try that pur­sues val­ue beyond con­ven­tion­al knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence. It aims to pro­vide a new dai­ly lifestyle by bring­ing imag­i­na­tion into real­i­ty and accom­plish­ing them in sev­er­al phas­es. Moviation’s goal is to become South Kore­a’s first and the best UAM ser­vice provider, by util­is­ing con­ven­tion­al heli­copters in the first phase of its plan.

Min Shin, CEO at Movi­a­tion, added: “Both com­pa­nies will be com­mit­ted to con­tribut­ing to the glob­al advance­ment of the UAM indus­try through the UATM sys­tem­at­ic accu­mu­la­tion and dis­sem­i­na­tion of data. Movi­a­tion is ded­i­cat­ed to deliv­er­ing a secure and reli­able Urban Air Mobil­i­ty ser­vice by lever­ag­ing state-of-the-art tech­nol­o­gy.

“This includes the seam­less inte­gra­tion of the Urban Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment (UATM) sys­tem, achieved through rig­or­ous test­ing and the sys­tem­at­ic accu­mu­la­tion of flight data, in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with Eve.”

Eve has engaged Ate­ch, Embraer’s Air Traf­fic Con­trol tech­nol­o­gy and sys­tem inte­gra­tor com­pa­ny, to sup­port the devel­op­ment of the Urban ATM soft­ware solu­tion. Eve is lever­ag­ing Atech’s expe­ri­ence in devel­op­ing avi­a­tion-grade prod­ucts from the ATM sys­tems in Brazil.

The com­pa­ny is also con­tin­u­ing to col­lab­o­rate with reg­u­la­tors, cus­tomers air nav­i­ga­tion ser­vice providers, fleet oper­a­tors, ver­ti­port devel­op­ers, air­ports and oth­er UAM ecosys­tems stake­hold­ers glob­al­ly to advance con­cepts and devel­op tech­nol­o­gy to sup­port ini­tial oper­a­tion and scal­ing of UAM oper­a­tions from an ATM per­spec­tive.