Eve Air Mobility Presents “Vector”, Provides Updates on Urban ATM Software Development 

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty announced this week at the Air­space World in Gene­va, the name of its Urban Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment (Urban ATM) soft­ware, while pro­vid­ing updates on the solution’s devel­op­ment, reports a press release. 

The release explains, “Vec­tor will be an agnos­tic soft­ware solu­tion designed to safe­ly address the unique air traf­fic and net­work man­age­ment chal­lenges of cur­rent and future Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) oper­a­tions, focus­ing on fleet and ver­ti­port oper­a­tors, and future ser­vice providers for AAM, includ­ing Air Nav­i­ga­tion Ser­vice Providers (ANSPs).” It adds, “The com­pa­ny is advanc­ing towards an oper­a­tional ver­sion of the soft­ware which cus­tomers can test and tri­al to help progress the mar­ket.

Johann Bor­dais, Eve’s CEO, remarked, “Vec­tor will stream­line AAM oper­a­tions from day 1, coor­di­nat­ing all stake­hold­ers involved to enhance safe­ty, opti­mise per­for­mance and max­imise resource usage. For Eve has been address­ing these chal­lenges to sup­port the intro­duc­tion and growth of the mar­ket in a har­monised and safe way, as we expect first deliv­er­ies and entry into ser­vice as soon as 2026.”       

Vec­tor allows eVTOLs to be inte­grat­ed with oth­er air­craft fly­ing in low-lev­el urban air­space by pro­vid­ing the automa­tion required to enable UAM mar­ket scal­a­bil­i­ty. 

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So far, Eve has 14 cus­tomers for this solu­tion, includ­ing fleet oper­a­tors and ver­ti­ports as well as air­space and flow man­age­ment providers. Vec­tor helps oper­a­tions become more effi­cient, while ANSPs and Providers of Ser­vices (PSU) for UAM can opti­mise the air­space and air traf­fic net­work for all users.

Last Novem­ber, Eve part­nered with Flex­jet to con­duct a sim­u­la­tion to val­i­date and refine Vector’s capa­bil­i­ties under real-sce­nario con­di­tions to bet­ter under­stand the soft­ware’s com­mer­cial via­bil­i­ty and appli­ca­tions. 

The release con­tin­ues, “The sim­u­la­tion took place in the UK and involved 18 flights across eight aero­dromes, exer­cis­ing 26 dif­fer­ent routes with alter­na­tive land­ing loca­tions to test the stand­by flight plan func­tion­al­i­ty. The team also test­ed delays at depar­ture and des­ti­na­tion with impacts on incom­ing flights, flight can­cel­la­tions due to air­space and weath­er con­straints, and in-flight emer­gen­cies, includ­ing alter­na­tive land­ing loca­tion requests.”

The Eve-Flex­jet sim­u­la­tion found gaps between cur­rent ATM sys­tems and those required to sup­port UAM oper­a­tions from Day 1, such as a lack of inte­gra­tion between fleet and ver­ti­port oper­a­tor sys­tems to coor­di­nate eVTOL flights safe­ly and effi­cient­ly. 

Eve is there­fore pri­ori­tis­ing the devel­op­ment of ser­vices that address these gaps, includ­ing inte­grat­ed flight plan­ning with air­space and ver­ti­port resource avail­abil­i­ty; man­age­ment of alter­nate land­ing loca­tions built into the flight plan­ning to sup­port the endurance lim­i­ta­tions of elec­tric air­craft; and con­for­mance man­age­ment to inform stake­hold­ers when flights devi­ate from their plan and may affect oth­er flights.

Bren­den Hed­blom, Eve’s Head of Traf­fic Man­age­ment Solu­tions, com­ment­ed, “Flight dis­patch­ers are respon­si­ble for near­ly all aspects of an oper­a­tion, which requires exten­sive deci­sion-mak­ing and track­ing abil­i­ties. Urban ATM ser­vices can sup­port these activ­i­ties in prepa­ra­tion for AAM oper­a­tions through increased lev­els of automa­tion and an inte­grat­ed view of the rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion tied to a spe­cif­ic flight.”

He added, “Eve has been active­ly incor­po­rat­ing fea­tures, includ­ing feed­back received through user test­ing, into Vec­tor to ensure the val­ue of its ser­vices trans­lates direct­ly to the end users.”

As Vec­tor matures, so Eve will con­tin­ue to pur­sue addi­tion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties “in real-world sce­nar­ios” to tri­al the solu­tion with its cus­tomers and part­ners.

The com­pa­ny expects this year to progress towards an oper­a­tional ver­sion of the soft­ware which cus­tomers can test to help advance the mar­ket and pre­pare the UAM ecosys­tem for ini­tial oper­a­tions.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.eveairmobility.com

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