{"id":21659,"date":"2021-12-10T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intellias.com\/?p=21659"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:00:17","slug":"how-flying-cars-and-delivery-drones-will-shape-urban-air-mobility","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/how-flying-cars-and-delivery-drones-will-shape-urban-air-mobility\/","title":{"rendered":"How Flying Cars and Delivery Drones Will Shape Urban Air Mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"
Flying cars and drones for human transportation are no longer relegated to the science fiction of Blade Runner and the wildest ideas presented at tech events. Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft such as passenger carrying drones, delivery drones, and air taxis are promising a whole new urban mobility concept: air mobility.<\/p>\n
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Atkinson places VTOL in the same category with autonomous driving, another technology destined to change the future of transportation once and for all. The development of VTOL aircraft started in 1983<\/a>. There have been several massive air mobility breakthroughs along the way. Today, VTOL is predicted to bring huge changes to the passenger transportation market and urban mobility solutions development<\/a>.<\/p>\n Predicted timeframe for commercial passenger drones<\/b> The anticipated growth of the VTOL market is motivating OEMs, drone manufacturers, automakers, and technology solution providers to join the race for urban air mobility. Companies engaged in the development of VTOL technologies are focusing on various products like passenger drones, smaller drones for last-mile delivery and advertising services, flying cars, and revolutionary air vehicles. The lion\u2019s share of air mobility market leaders have already passed the conceptualization stage.<\/p>\n Current stages of VTOL development among leading manufacturers<\/b> Urban air mobility will be an integral part of the transportation system<\/a> in urban areas, tackling challenges with traffic jams<\/a>, cost and space optimization, connections to rural areas, air pollution, and lethal incidents on the road.<\/p>\n Apart from that, VTOL combined with location data services<\/a> brings even greater potential to delivery services. Just imagine buzzing swarms of drones shipping countless Amazon packages after Black Friday madness. Other commercial drone applications<\/a> include building inspections, sky-based security, and maintenance and repair services.<\/p>\n Benefits of air transport across a range of services<\/b><\/p>\n Learn how a global provider of location mapping data developed a mobility as a service platform for seamless multimodal transportation services<\/p>\n When discussing the benefits flying mobility can bring to transportation and delivery services, we should distinguish between the types of Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft to be used for each type of service. Let\u2019s take air transportation first.<\/p>\n Users of air taxis will get the most advantages from vertical mobility by commuting far distances such as from one city to another, from urban to rural areas, or from an airport to the city. The reason for this is that VTOL aircraft will still require passengers to access additional mobility services to get from their starting point to their final destination.<\/p>\n The customer journey for VTOL passengers<\/b> Even with these constraints, VTOL promises to be much faster than taxis, let alone public transportation on surface roads.<\/p>\n Comparison of travel time by road vs air, including direct connection and transfer<\/b> In the example above, we see that even the less optimistic scenario, in which commuters need to go to a vertiport or some other specially built infrastructure for takeoff and landing, minimizes travel time by 19 minutes while commuting from the Munich airport to Marienplatz in the city center. And as for the price, well, we have some forecasts from Daniel Wiegand, the CEO of Lilium, who lit up the stage at Web Summit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To be on the same page as these bright minds in urban air mobility, check out this video from Web Summit.<\/p>\n
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\nSource: Porsche Consulting \u2013 The Future of Vertical Mobility<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\nSource: Deloitte Insights<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n
Air taxis for transportation over long distances or drones for last-mile delivery? We\u2019ll take them both<\/h2>\n
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\nSource: Porsche Consulting<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\nSource: Porsche Consulting<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n