Research is being conducted worldwide in the field of Urban Air Mobility and the first prototypes are already in the air. Major aviation and automotive manufacturers, city administrations and technology companies are working on innovative solutions for the urban mobility of the future.
We at Urban Skyhubs are convinced that a well-applied and demand-optimized Urban Air Mobility can make an important contribution to sustainable and future-proof mobility.
For operators and owners of real estate and properties, Urban Skyhubs offer new opportunities for generating added value. We help you to make your location future-proof and optimally networked.
Urban Skyhubs and UAM can also solve many problems for state actors. It enables the reduction of congestion and pollution and opens up whole new possibilities of urban multimodal transport.
The areas of application for your company are manifold. Whether you want to transport goods or people quickly and efficiently, implement new technologies or simply get a picture of the new market.
The need for alternative mobility options is increasing. New technologies are being developed to diversify and simplify people's mobility.
The shift towards autonomous mobility is in full swing. New types of driver assistance systems are becoming increasingly commonplace, and not only in road traffic. Urban air mobility will largely fly autonomously in the future.
Road traffic is the fifth leading cause of death in the world, killing 2.4 million people a year. Urban Air Mobility is working to make autonomous flying the safest mode of transport.
By 2050, more than 70% of the world's population will live in cities. This will lead to a densification of cities and a lot of traffic. Urban Air Mobility can help to relieve the cities.
At less than 60 dB, eVTOLs are significantly quieter than comparable helicopters, so that applications are also possible throughout urban areas.
During flight, eVTOL emit almost no pollutants. Urban Air Mobility can thus make a significant contribution to emission-free urban transport.
By 2050, more than 70% of the world's population will live in cities. This will lead to a densification of cities and a lot of traffic. Urban Air Mobility can help to relieve the cities.
At less than 60 dB, eVTOL are significantly quieter than comparable helicopters, making them suitable for use throughout urban areas.
During flight, eVTOL emit almost no pollutants. Urban Air Mobility can thus make a significant contribution to emission-free urban transport.
Drones are already being used for logistical purposes. Urban air mobility used sensibly can optimize particularly time-intensive deliveries of goods.
eVTOL are ideally suited for fast, safe and quiet transport. Thus, Urban Air Mobility can be a cost-effective alternative for medical transports such as patient transport or also the transport of donor organs in the future.
Poorly connected and peripheral areas can be reached easily and quickly with eVTOL. This means that remote locations can be meaningfully integrated into the overall network.
Urban Air Mobility is the term used to describe various concepts for urban transportation by air. These concepts are based on new developments of mainly electronic aircrafts to enable short-range passenger flights within cities. Despite the name, Urban Air Mobility can of course also be used in rural areas.
The term eVTOL is the acronym for "electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle". It is the electrically powered variant of a so-called VTOL (vertical take-off and landing vehicle), which includes helicopters, for example. Accordingly, all airworthy electrical vehicles that can take off and land vertically and thus do not require a runway are counted as eVTOL. This results in a significantly lower infrastructure requirement.
Urban Skyhubs are needed for take-off and landing of the eVTOL. They must be adapted to the given structural infrastructure and harmonized with the existing mobility offers. Urban Skyhubs can be realized in different variants and types. In the smallest variant, only the mandatory areas required for smooth air traffic have to be integrated into an Urban Skyhub. In further expansion stages, Urban Skyhubs can be designed to represent a new hotspot in the city or to function as a highly frequented traffic hub.
There are already several eVTOL registered at the various certification levels with the air traffic authorities EASA and FAA. The first urban flight routes are planned for 2023 and autonomous flight is forecast for 2035. The development is comparable to the developments in the field of autonomous mobility.
The market for drones alone is said to be worth $4.8 billion worldwide, according to studies. This is primarily due to the ever-increasing use of drones as a means of delivering and transporting goods. The market for urban air mobility as a whole is thus much higher. More than 300 government-funded research studies are currently being conducted worldwide in the field of Urban Air Mobility. This does not include private companies that are conducting studies and test flights at their own expense.
The target for the volume of eVTOL is 60 dB and lower, which corresponds to a quarter of the volume of a conventional helicopter. In order to obtain approval for flying over urban areas, the dB value of the aircraft must be correspondingly low so as not to generate permanent noise pollution.
Road transport is often unreliable for time-sensitive deliveries, transport of goods or people due to increased traffic, construction work or similar. This is where eVTOL and Urban Air Mobility can be used as they can act quickly, cleanly and easily to meet and optimise schedules. With speeds ranging from 80 to over 300 km/h depending on the eVTOL design, these are especially efficient for routes over 30 km due to longer take-off and landing phases compared to cars.
With 2.4 million deaths per year, road traffic is the fifth highest cause of death in the world. Urban Air Mobility has the claim to significantly higher safety here through ever better air traffic management systems and corresponding sensors. The eVTOLs themselves are also safe due to the redundancy of their engines, even in the event of an engine failure.
With more than 160 million tons of CO2 produced annually, road traffic is the second largest producer of CO2 emissions worldwide. eVTOL, on the other hand, produce almost no CO2 emissions during flight. Similar to the e-mobility of passenger cars, this means that the emissions discharged during the production of the batteries are amortized after just a few kilometers of flight. Urban Air Mobility is therefore an ecologically sustainable means of transport in the long term.
