UAP, SITA Join Forces, “New Collaboration Sets Stage for Software Defined, Hardware Enabled Urban Airports”

Urban-Air Port (UAP) announced this week, it is col­lab­o­rat­ing with SITA, a lead­ing spe­cial­ist in air trans­port com­mu­ni­ca­tions and infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy, to com­bine mod­u­lar ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture with inno­v­a­tive dig­i­tal plat­forms, reports a press release. 

The aim is to pio­neer inte­grat­ed, scal­able and pas­sen­ger-cen­tric urban air trans­port enabled by smart ver­ti­ports and reshape short region­al jour­neys, cut­ting car­bon emis­sions, sav­ing time and alle­vi­at­ing pres­sure on exist­ing infra­struc­ture.

The release explains, “The part­ner­ship will cre­ate the world’s first ful­ly inte­grat­ed Soft­ware-Defined Ver­ti­port, fea­tur­ing a co-devel­oped ‘AirOne’ for glob­al unveil­ing.” 

Andrea Wu, CEO of Urban-Air Port, com­ment­ed, “This isn’t just about new infra­struc­ture, it is about deliv­er­ing a ful­ly-con­nect­ed expe­ri­ence for pas­sen­gers, VTOL and trans­port oper­a­tors. By unit­ing our inno­v­a­tive ver­ti­port hard­ware with SITA’s proven avi­a­tion plat­forms, we’re build­ing a real foun­da­tion for safe, scal­able air mobil­i­ty with glob­al reach.”

Cen­tral to the ini­tia­tive is the Ver­ti­port Man­age­ment Sys­tem (VMS), a cloud-based plat­form offer­ing every aspect of ver­ti­port oper­a­tions includ­ing plan­ning, resource allo­ca­tion, pas­sen­ger flow, weath­er data mon­i­tor­ing and secu­ri­ty. By inte­grat­ing mod­u­lar infra­struc­ture with a cloud-native plat­form, automa­tion and AI sup­port, the part­ner­ship aims to deliv­er the resilience, scal­a­bil­i­ty and oper­a­tional agili­ty essen­tial for high-den­si­ty AAM deploy­ments in com­plex urban envi­ron­ments.

Benoit Ver­baere, Direc­tor of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment for Trav­el & Trans­port at SITA, remarked,  “Urban Air Mobil­i­ty holds vast poten­tial to shape the future of trav­el, but it must scale rapid­ly, safe­ly, and intel­li­gent­ly.”

He con­tin­ued, “We’re lever­ag­ing decades of avi­a­tion exper­tise to build the dig­i­tal back­bone of the AAM ecosys­tem, seam­less­ly inte­grat­ing VTOLs into tomorrow’s inter­modal trans­port net­works.”

Back­ground

SITA serves around 95 per­cent of inter­na­tion­al des­ti­na­tions. More than 2,500 air­lines, air­ports, ground han­dlers and gov­ern­ments, all work close­ly with the com­pa­ny.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.urbanairport.com

https://www.sita.aero

(Images: UAP)

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