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SINGAPORE AIRSHOW 2024: Eve Air Mobility and Skyscape pen first Urban ATM agreement in Japan

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty and Sky­Scape have announced an agree­ment to use Eve’s Urban ATM as a part of the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) con­cept of oper­a­tions pub­lished by the Japan­ese gov­ern­ment.

The announce­ment at this year’s Sin­ga­pore Air­show makes Sky­scape Eve’s 13th Urban ATM cus­tomer and becomes its sixth Urban ATM ver­ti­port cus­tomer, as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to grow its busi­ness glob­al­ly. The Japan­ese ver­ti­port devel­op­ment and man­age­ment firm is head­quar­tered in Osa­ka, Japan.

As part of the agree­ment, the two com­pa­nies will col­lab­o­rate in a num­ber of dif­fer­ent ways includ­ing pro­mot­ing Urban Air Mobil­i­ty in Japan and the test and tri­al of Urban ATM soft­ware includ­ing data col­lec­tion and shar­ing.

David Rot­tblatt, vice pres­i­dent of sales and gov­ern­ment affairs at Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, said: “This agree­ment rep­re­sents a key mile­stone for Eve as Sky­Scape becomes our first Urban ATM cus­tomer in Japan as we con­tin­ue to grow our port­fo­lio of ver­ti­port cus­tomers around the world.

“Japan has been very proac­tive and is a glob­al leader in pur­su­ing urban air mobil­i­ty. Eve’s Urban ATM solu­tion will play a crit­i­cal role in help­ing to trans­port eVTOL pas­sen­gers quick­ly and safe­ly in dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed cities in the future.”

Eve says its Urban ATM soft­ware solu­tion is a key enabler to the effi­cient imple­men­ta­tion and scal­a­bil­i­ty of urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM), by pro­vid­ing ser­vices for air nav­i­ga­tion ser­vice providers, urban author­i­ties, fleet oper­a­tors, ver­ti­port oper­a­tors, and oth­er UAM stake­hold­ers. 

The solu­tion includes UAM flight coor­di­na­tion, ver­ti­port automa­tion air­side sup­port, air­space flow man­age­ment and con­for­mance man­age­ment.

Both com­pa­nies will also work togeth­er on show­cas­ing eVTOL design and test­ing, ver­ti­port design, oper­a­tion cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and future autonomous oper­a­tion devel­op­ment at Sky­Scape loca­tions includ­ing their planned coun­try research site known as the ‘Inte­grat­ed Avi­a­tion Cen­ter’ (IAC) when it opens in the future.

Asa Que­sen­ber­ry, CEO of Sky­Scape, added: “Our team at Sky­Scape is focused on devel­op­ments that move the nee­dle for­ward and get us clos­er to launch­ing real AAM ser­vices. Work­ing direct­ly with the Eve team push­es us one step clos­er to the real­i­ty we’re look­ing to cre­ate with­in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty and enables the vari­ety of avi­a­tion oper­a­tions we’re plan­ning to offer from our facil­i­ties.”

Sky­Scape is pio­neer­ing a unique approach to ver­ti­port devel­op­ment focused on their avi­a­tion facil­i­ty ‘build­ing blocks’, as a set of ready-made units that house var­i­ous ele­ments of ver­ti­port oper­a­tions.

These blocks are meant to empow­er site devel­op­ers by allow­ing them to design avi­a­tion facil­i­ties and ver­ti­ports with only the ele­ments that are applic­a­ble to their unique sit­u­a­tion and use case. The blocks intend to make use of upcy­cled conex con­tain­ers as well as high-grade alu­mini­um to enable quick set up and resilience through the facil­i­ties life­cy­cle while empha­sis­ing a focus on sus­tain­able mate­ri­als.

SkyScape’s approach is to devel­op avi­a­tion facil­i­ties and sup­port a high num­ber of co-locat­ed ser­vices not lim­it­ed to eVTOL oper­a­tions but also first response, med­ical deliv­er­ies, secu­ri­ty and more in the name of empow­er­ing com­mu­ni­ties through Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

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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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