Qatar Latest Middle East Country “to Embrace AAM Revolution”

Last month Qatar announced it will soon embrace the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty rev­o­lu­tion (AAM) with plans to begin test­ing elec­tric air taxis and car­go drones in ear­ly 2025, reports met.gov.qa.

The country’s Min­istry of Trans­port wrote on its web­site, “(it) will imple­ment strate­gies that aim for devel­op­ing and oper­at­ing an inte­grat­ed mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem in Qatar.”

The Min­istry has applied for all the nec­es­sary approvals for the tri­als to go ahead with the rel­e­vant Qatari bod­ies.

The Min­istry con­tin­ues, “This step will con­tribute to sup­port­ing the per­for­mance of Qatar’s trans­porta­tion sec­tor by intro­duc­ing the new con­cept of air mobil­i­ty, which uses lat­est glob­al tech­nolo­gies and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, there­by enhanc­ing the pub­lic tran­sit system’s inte­gra­tion, coher­ence, sus­tain­abil­i­ty and eco-friend­li­ness.” 

This marks the next move for the Min­istry to achieve the envi­ron­men­tal goals laid down via its ‘Third Qatar Nation­al Devel­op­ment Strat­e­gy’ (NDS3).

 NDS3 focus­es on the ben­e­fits from advanced tech­nolo­gies, while achiev­ing sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and eco­nom­ic diver­si­fi­ca­tion and there­by, boost­ing Qatar’s lead­ing glob­al posi­tion on the trans­porta­tion map. This will also help achieve its goals laid down in its man­i­festo ‘Qatar Nation­al Vision 2030’.

It is unclear which eVTOLs will par­tic­i­pate in Qatar’s tri­als. No doubt  com­pa­nies like Joby, Archer and EHang are to be involved along­side, per­haps, Dron­am­ics, Beta Tech­nolo­gies and oth­ers.

(News Source: https://mot.gov.qa/en)

(Top image: Cred­it — Qatari Min­istry of Trans­port)

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