UrbanV and ICAD join forces to develop vertiport operations in Saudi Arabia and across Middle East region

UrbanV and ICAD Hold­ing LTD are part­ner­ing to com­bine their dis­tinc­tive capa­bil­i­ties in devel­op­ing ver­ti­port oper­a­tions and infra­struc­ture in Sau­di Ara­bia and the Mid­dle East region.

This col­lab­o­ra­tion aims to estab­lish a blue­print for ver­ti­port oper­a­tions, includ­ing take-off and land­ing pro­ce­dures, tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem inte­gra­tion and define a plan to oper­ate ver­ti­ports and ver­ti­port net­works in the Mid­dle East.

The agree­ment out­lines a coop­er­a­tion between UrbanV and ICAD to explore joint oppor­tu­ni­ties in devel­op­ing projects in the field of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) and Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) across the region.

Car­lo Tur­si, CEO at UrbanV, said: “At UrbanV, we aim to improve people’s lives by enabling a fast, effi­cient, safe, and clean alter­na­tive to exist­ing trans­port solu­tions for peo­ple and goods over short dis­tances, by air. We have the ambi­tion to become a major glob­al oper­a­tor of ver­ti­port net­works and we will be glob­al pio­neers in estab­lish­ing some of the first AAM routes world­wide.

“We are excit­ed to part­ner with ICAD, a glob­al leader in its field, and we look for­ward to explor­ing togeth­er with them the great poten­tial of intro­duc­ing advanced air mobil­i­ty in the Mid­dle East and beyond.”

UrbanV will lever­age its exper­tise in ver­ti­port plan­ning, design, net­work analy­sis, busi­ness plan­ning, route eval­u­a­tion, and inter­ac­tion with reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ties.

Addi­tion­al­ly, UrbanV’s exten­sive glob­al net­work in the AAM sec­tor will sup­port var­i­ous stake­hold­ers, includ­ing pri­vate and pub­lic enti­ties, in the region.

While ICAD will con­tribute its broad exper­tise across var­i­ous sec­tors, includ­ing con­struc­tion, tech­nol­o­gy inte­gra­tion, and oper­a­tional man­age­ment, to sup­port UrbanV in build­ing and man­ag­ing ver­ti­ports.

This includes con­tracts for aero­nau­ti­cal and non-aero­nau­ti­cal aspects of ver­ti­port oper­a­tion and main­te­nance.

Ziad El Sayegh, CEO at ICAD, said: “ICAD is proud to join forces with UrbanV to spear­head the devel­op­ment of ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture in the Mid­dle East. Our exten­sive expe­ri­ence in con­struc­tion and tech­nol­o­gy inte­gra­tion posi­tions us unique­ly to sup­port UrbanV in real­iz­ing their vision for a seam­less infra­struc­ture for aer­i­al mobil­i­ty net­work.

“Togeth­er, we will cre­ate a robust frame­work for ver­ti­port net­work oper­a­tions that not only enhances con­nec­tiv­i­ty and pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence but also sets new stan­dards for effi­cien­cy and sus­tain­abil­i­ty in urban air mobil­i­ty.”

The col­lab­o­ra­tion aims to accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of AAM and UAM ser­vices in the Mid­dle East, estab­lish­ing a robust infra­struc­ture net­work that will facil­i­tate the seam­less inte­gra­tion of aer­i­al mobil­i­ty solu­tions into the region’s trans­porta­tion ecosys­tem.

Rabih El Sayegh, Board Mem­ber at ICAD, added: “We are thrilled to embark on this ground­break­ing part­ner­ship with UrbanV, which marks a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in the evo­lu­tion of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty in Sau­di Ara­bia.

“ICAD’s com­mit­ment to excel­lence in infra­struc­ture, con­struc­tion, tech­nol­o­gy inte­gra­tion, oper­a­tion and main­te­nance will be piv­otal in devel­op­ing state-of-the-art ver­ti­ports. This col­lab­o­ra­tion under­scores our ded­i­ca­tion to pio­neer­ing inno­v­a­tive solu­tions that will trans­form the region­al trans­porta­tion land­scape.”