South Korea: Hyundai Motor, Hyundai Engineering & Construction and KT Corps “Complete First Round of K‑UAM Grand Challenge” 

Accord­ing to Korea’s Joon­gAng Dai­ly News, the Hyundai Motor, Hyundai Engi­neer­ing & Con­struc­tion and KT Corps Con­sor­tium announced this week they had suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its first step of the K‑UAM Grand Chal­lenge.

The event, which last­ed five weeks and occurred at an avi­a­tion test­ing cen­tre in Gohe­ung, South Jeol­la, tri­alled eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions along­side traf­fic man­age­ment. Infra­struc­ture, in par­tic­u­lar a ver­ti­port, was also test­ed.

Hyundai explained it had tri­alled its own MaaS (mobil­i­ty as a ser­vice), a plat­form for all types of trans­porta­tion from con­ven­tion­al vehi­cles to UAM, dur­ing this project’s first phase. It also col­lect­ed data on fac­tors such as weath­er and wind speed that could affect the oper­a­tion of eVTOLs.

South Korea: SKT ‘K‑UAM Grand Chal­lenge’ Con­sor­tium Sign MOU With South Gyeongsang Province

Hyundai and its affil­i­ate Engi­neer­ing & Con­struc­tion Group are two of three par­tic­i­pants in this par­tic­u­lar K‑UAM con­sor­tium. The oth­er, KT Cor­po­ra­tion, for­mer­ly Korea Tele­com, is the sec­ond largest telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and wire­less car­ri­er com­pa­ny in the coun­try. The ini­tia­tive is divid­ed up: Hyundai Motor (eVTOL Oper­a­tions); KT Corps (Traf­fic Man­age­ment); and Hyundai E&C (Ver­ti­ports).

KT has set up a plat­form which is able to process data on traf­fic and safe­ty in real time, while Hyundai Engi­neer­ing and Con­struc­tion analy­ses the demon­stra­tion of a ver­ti­port in var­i­ous sim­u­la­tions.

There are sev­en Con­sor­tiums in total and 46 dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies involved in the K‑UAM Grand Chal­lenge.

(News Source: https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/)

(Image: Par­tic­i­pants of the Hyundai K‑UAM Grand chal­lenge Con­sor­tium at an avi­a­tion test cen­tre in Gohe­ung, South Jeol­la — Cred­it: Hyundai)

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