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Australia: Transport Plans for Brisbane Olympic Games 2032 “Include Urban Air Mobility to Dramatically Reduce Travel Times”

In a major report released this week enti­tled, “The Race to Gold – Brisbane’s Games Trans­port Lega­cy”, the Aus­tralian City announced a wide-rang­ing trans­port devel­op­ment plan to pre­pare for the trav­el needs dur­ing the 2032 Games and beyond. This com­pre­hen­sive pro­pos­al includes numer­ous modes of trans­port, includ­ing the facil­i­ta­tion of elec­tric air taxis.

The Report

https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2024–08/20240828-The-race-to-gold-Brisbane’s-Games-Transport-Legacy.pdf

The report states, “With 8 years to go, the Games present a strong oppor­tu­ni­ty to show­case the poten­tial of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM). Coun­cil of May­ors, South East Queens­land (SEQ), is play­ing a key role in facil­i­tat­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between gov­ern­ment agen­cies involved in the plan­ning for UAM.”

Adri­an Schrin­ner, Bris­bane Lord May­or, com­ment­ed, “When we secured the Games, we knew it meant more than host­ing for a few weeks. It was an oppor­tu­ni­ty to leave a last­ing trans­port lega­cy for our city.”

He con­tin­ued, “The Games present a once-in-a- life­time oppor­tu­ni­ty to accel­er­ate invest­ment in our trans­port net­work and deliv­er long-term ben­e­fits for our com­mu­ni­ty that are inclu­sive and acces­si­ble to all.”

Clem New­ton-Brown, CEO of ver­ti­port devel­op­er, Sky­portz, and a strong advo­cate for UAM in Australia90, wel­comed the report. He remarked, “Bris­bane is well suit­ed for water­front vertistops co-locat­ed with fer­ry ter­mi­nals, as the riv­er wraps around the CBD. Yet, the city is also going to require sub­ur­ban vertistops stretch­ing from the Sun­shine Coast to the Gold Coast and into the hin­ter­land.”

He added,  “In Aus­tralia we have strong sup­port from our air reg­u­la­tor, CASA, Fed­er­al and State Gov­ern­ments, but what we need is strong buy in from local Gov­ern­ments. South East Queens­land is cur­rent­ly lead­ing the way.”

The report states that the Olympic Games present a strong oppor­tu­ni­ty to show­case the poten­tial of urban air mobil­i­ty. SEQ Coun­cil of May­ors is play­ing a key role in facil­i­tat­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between gov­ern­ment agen­cies involved in the plan­ning for urban air mobil­i­ty.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://skyportz.com

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