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Unifly, Terra Drone, Aloft Technologies Begin Partnership “to Create New Global Infrastructure in the Sky”

The world’s lead­ing UAS Traf­fic Man­age­ment (UTM) com­pa­nies have come togeth­er to kick­start the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try, reports a press release. The part­ner­ship of Uni­fly, Ter­ra Drone and Aloft Tech­nolo­gies marks the first col­lab­o­ra­tion among mul­ti­ple UTM lead­ers, by pool­ing their exper­tise. 

Anchored by Ter­ra Drone’s strate­gic invest­ments in Uni­fly and Aloft, this col­lab­o­ra­tion rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in the evo­lu­tion of UTM for the AAM indus­try, bring­ing togeth­er lead­ing exper­tise from mul­ti­ple indus­try lead­ers. 

The release explains, “The three com­pa­nies are dri­ven by a shared vision: to ensure the safe and effi­cient coex­is­tence of air­craft, drones, and elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) air­craft in dai­ly life. Cen­tral to the com­mon mis­sion is the recog­ni­tion of the indis­pens­able role of UTM. By lever­ag­ing their pro­found exper­tise and exten­sive track records in UTM across diverse regions, this alliance rep­re­sents a uni­fied effort to estab­lish a glob­al stan­dard for UTM in AAM world­wide.” The announce­ment was unveiled at the recent U.S XPONENTIAL 2024 Expo in San Diego, Cal­i­for­nia.

Ter­ra Drone, Uni­fly and Aloft are embark­ing on this joint busi­ness devel­op­ment to embrace the oppor­tu­ni­ties pre­sent­ed by the rapid glob­al progress in eVTOLs, which are poised, some say, to rev­o­lu­tionise trans­porta­tion. Accord­ing to research by Mor­gan Stan­ley, the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM), part of the AAM mar­ket, is expect­ed to grow to USD1 tril­lion by 2040 and USD9 tril­lion by 2050. The col­lab­o­ra­tion aims “to seize the momen­tum and spear­head UTM evo­lu­tion to align with the needs of the AAM sec­tor.” The com­pa­nies have announced ini­tia­tives aimed at enhanc­ing their exist­ing UTM plat­forms

Dif­fer­ent UTM Actions (Cred­it: Uni­fly)

“With a focus on automa­tion, the plat­forms cur­rent­ly offer advanced plan­ning fea­tures and sophis­ti­cat­ed Notice to Air­men (NOTAM) pars­ing capa­bil­i­ties,” con­tin­ues the release. “These strate­gic ini­tia­tives entail incor­po­rat­ing addi­tion­al func­tion­al­i­ties cru­cial for the sector’s growth while for­ti­fy­ing their plat­forms with enhanced automa­tion. By stream­lin­ing oper­a­tional effi­cien­cies and inte­grat­ing sophis­ti­cat­ed UTM tech­nol­o­gy into the design and oper­a­tion frame­work of AAM, the part­ners aim to set new stan­dards in UTM and to facil­i­tate the seam­less inte­gra­tion of eVTOLs and drones into the nation­al air­space, bol­ster­ing the poten­tial for the AAM indus­try.”

The three are seek­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion with a broad array of part­ners includ­ing eVTOL man­u­fac­tur­ers and oper­a­tors, ver­ti­port admin­is­tra­tors, avi­a­tion author­i­ties, air nav­i­ga­tion ser­vice providers (ANSPs) and urban plan­ners, to inte­grate AAM into city infra­struc­tures and edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions for research and devel­op­ment. 

By forg­ing part­ner­ships across such diverse sec­tors, the col­lab­o­ra­tors seek to cre­ate a cohe­sive ecosys­tem that not only sup­ports the growth of AAM but also address­es the broad­er chal­lenges of urban mobil­i­ty, sus­tain­abil­i­ty and air traf­fic safe­ty.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.unifly.aero/

http://www.terra-drone.net

https:www.aloft.ai/

(Top image: The Part­ner­ship)

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