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Volocopter Companions with SITA on City Air Mobility Infrastructure
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M, Crosby
City air mobility (UAM) chief Volocopter has entered a partnership with air transport business IT supplier SITA. The settlement positions SITA as Volocopter’s most well-liked digital and IT programs associate for vertiports, in addition to the most recent investor in Volocopter’s Collection E funding spherical.
UAM has the potential to usher in a brand new age of sustainable aviation, providing quite a few mobility choices to cities across the globe. Volocopter’s VoloCity electrical air taxi will function routes in megacities to offer passengers with a secure and dependable methodology of transportation. Passengers will be capable of hail a flight through designated boarding factors (or “vertiports”).
SITA will leverage its air transport experience for the burgeoning UAM business, creating new working requirements and a digital-first passenger expertise. The corporate’s portfolio contains a broad vary of IT options, equivalent to airport administration and operations, passenger operations, flight and plane operations, baggage processing, and border administration.
Identified for its built-in UAM ecosystem strategy, Volocopter’s VoloIQ digital working system connects all companions, permitting for a digital-first strategy leading to end-to-end passenger air transportation experiences. The system is at present present process the certification course of, performed by the related aviation authorities.
“Volocopter constantly takes a holistic ecosystem strategy. Working in live performance with our companions, we’re organising for industrial operations,” mentioned Volocopter Chief Industrial Officer Christian Bauer. “This includes establishing the requisite infrastructure, upkeep, flight operations, IT, and buyer companies. SITA is a number one IT supplier for airports and airways, and we imagine there is no such thing as a higher associate to make our seamless journey expertise doable.”
“Volocopter is in pole place to make electrical air taxis a actuality, benefiting from its first-mover benefit. At SITA, we are going to play a key position in delivering this new digital UAM world and defining a seamless, smarter strategy to air journey in a metropolis surroundings,” mentioned Sergio Colella, SITA President for Europe. “Collectively we are going to flip the idea into follow as early as 2024 after we anticipate the primary industrial eVTOLs to take flight.”
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he obtained a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in expertise, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a employees author.
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, an expert drone companies market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone business and the regulatory surroundings for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the industrial drone house and is a global speaker and acknowledged determine within the business. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising for brand new applied sciences.
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