Varon Vehicles joins other global stakeholders and becomes a signatory of the Shared Mobility Principles

Varon Vehi­cles has become a sig­na­to­ry of the Shared Mobil­i­ty Prin­ci­ples for Liv­able Cities, which have been cre­at­ed to guide urban deci­sion mak­ers and stake­hold­ers as they inte­grate new Urban Air Mobil­i­ty ser­vices with cur­rent forms of trans­port.

The prin­ci­ples was launched at the 2017 Eco­mo­bil­i­ty World Fes­ti­val in Tai­wan, and have been pro­duced by a work­ing group of inter­na­tion­al non-gov­ern­ment organ­i­sa­tions, in coun­tries such as Aus­tralia, Cana­da, France, Ger­many, Japan, Unit­ed King­dom and the USA.

Varon Vehi­cles is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing its own Urban Air Mobil­i­ty con­cept in Latin Amer­i­ca, and speak­ing to eVTOLInsights.com, com­pa­ny CEO and Founder, Felipe Varon, said:

“These prin­ci­ples have been devel­oped by mobil­i­ty experts in the USA and with­in those stake­hold­ers are a com­pa­ny called New Urban Mobil­i­ty Organ­i­sa­tion, or NUMO. They were part of a course at MIT [Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy] about future mobil­i­ty which myself and a few mem­bers of the team attend­ed.

“Because of some of the engage­ment we have with MIT, we learnt about the Share Mobil­i­ty Prin­ci­ples dur­ing the course. They are a real­ly inter­est­ing set of guide­lines that arise from the fact that mobil­i­ty has to been looked at as a whole.

“We take in those guide­lines and try and make the best out of those in our efforts to abide by them. We’re proud to become a sig­na­to­ry along with so many oth­er rep­utable glob­al mobil­i­ty stake­hold­ers.”

The ten prin­ci­ples are as fol­lows:

1. We plan our cities and their mobil­i­ty togeth­er
2. We pri­ori­tise peo­ple over vehi­cles
3. We sup­port the shared and effi­cient use of vehi­cles, lanes, curbs and land
4. We engage with stake­hold­ers
5. We pro­mote equi­ty
6. We lead the tran­si­tion towards a zero-emis­sion future and renew­able ener­gy
7. We sup­port fair user fees across all modes
8. We aim for pub­lic ben­e­fits via open data
9. We work towards inte­gra­tion and seam­less con­nec­tiv­i­ty
10. We sup­port that autonomous vehi­cles in dense urban areas should be oper­at­ed only in shared fleets.

Varon Vehi­cles’ con­cept will con­sist of a series of ver­ti­ports con­nect­ed via well defined and per­ma­nent vir­tu­al lanes. Air­craft will then be able to fly along these, with­out adding a bur­den on Air Traf­fic Con­trol.

Each ver­ti­port will ser­vice a spe­cif­ic area and they will be placed both inside and out­side exist­ing urban struc­tures to gen­er­ate city growth and val­ue with­out the need for phys­i­cal mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture.

This will be with­out the need to build roads or rails, gen­er­ate new com­mer­cial and res­i­den­tial devel­op­ments, offer new and clean elec­tri­cal ener­gy resources and back­ups, and present new valu­able data acqui­si­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties.

For more infor­ma­tion about the Shared Mobil­i­ty Prin­ci­ples, vis­it https://www.sharedmobilityprinciples.org/