UrbanV, Korea Airports Corp Join Forces “to Develop AAM Ecosystem”

UrbanV, an Ital­ian ver­ti­port net­work oper­a­tor and Korea Air­ports Cor­po­ra­tion (KAC), an oper­a­tive of 14 air­ports nation­wide, have signed an agree­ment to devel­op an AAM ecosys­tem, reports a press release. 

The part­ners will engage “in mul­ti­ple joint activ­i­ties as part of the col­lab­o­ra­tion includ­ing ecosys­tem cre­ation, exchange of tech­ni­cal, oper­a­tional and reg­u­la­to­ry exper­tise as well as data,” explains the release.

UrbanV’s expe­ri­ence with reg­u­la­to­ry mat­ters, includ­ing col­lab­o­rat­ing to cre­ate  the first Ital­ian AAM reg­u­la­tion, along­side KAC’s Air-Cor­ri­dor Ser­vices abil­i­ties, will con­tribute “to a strate­gic coop­er­a­tion for the future design, con­struc­tion and oper­a­tion of ver­ti­port net­works,” con­tin­ues the release.

Car­lo Tur­si, CEO at UrbanV, com­ment­ed, “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.” He con­tin­ued, “We have the ambi­tion to become a major glob­al oper­a­tor of ver­ti­port net­works and look for­ward to explor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties with KAC.”

Lever­ag­ing its avi­a­tion exper­tise, the South Kore­an com­pa­ny is devel­op­ing an in-house Ver­ti­port sys­tem and prepar­ing Ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture for the nation’s first com­mer­cial AAM oper­a­tions in Jeju Island and its South­ern Coast Region.

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The two com­pa­nies intend to exchange data and best prac­tices regard­ing Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) activ­i­ties and to access each other’s UAM ecosys­tems in order to pro­vide tan­gi­ble sup­port for fea­si­bil­i­ty assess­ment and analy­sis with rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers like air oper­a­tors, site own­ers, indus­tri­al part­ners and reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies.

Jeong Ki Lee, Act­ing KAC Pres­i­dent remarked, “I believe the strate­gic part­ner­ship with UrbanV is the first step in gain­ing recog­ni­tion for Korea Air­ports Cor­po­ra­tion tech­nol­o­gy and exper­tise in over­seas mar­kets. We will strive to enhance the com­pet­i­tive­ness of our UAM-relat­ed tech­nol­o­gy by expand­ing over­seas col­lab­o­ra­tions.”

The release con­cludes, “The part­ner­ship rep­re­sents a key step towards the entry into ser­vice of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty. Mutu­al learn­ing and bench­mark­ing are strate­gic ele­ments to enable safe, effi­cient and sus­tain­able oper­a­tions in city skies dur­ing the near future.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://urbanv.com/en

https://www.airport.co.kr/wwweng/index.do

(Top image: The Sign­ing Cer­e­mo­ny — Cred­it: UrbanV, KAC)

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