The World Economic Forum has launched a new coalition of cities which will work together to make the possibility of advanced and urban aerial mobility a reality. The entity expects more collaboration and knowledge sharing to develop solutions to be used around the world.
Founding city and region members include:
- Amsterdam
- Massachusetts
- Orlando
- Los Angeles
- Île-de-France (Paris region)
- Sao Paulo
The Urban-Air-Mobility Initiative Cities Community (UIC2) of the European Union’s Smart Cities Marketplace will also join as a founding member and European arm of the coalition representing 37 cities and regions.
As well collaborating with each other, these cities and regions will also have the opportunity to engage with industry leaders through the Forum’s AAM/UAM community to co-develop policy solutions to advance this new technology.
This is because the government cannot respond quickly to this technology and the challenges it brings. And for cities to be able to keep up with what the private sector has done in terms of manufacturing eVTOLs and vertiports, they need a proactive approach.
“By taking a proactive approach to advanced aerial mobility technologies before they are fully rolled out, leaders can ensure that AAM avoids the issues we see with other forms of transportation today, such as inefficiency, congestion, noise disturbance and inequity.”
David Hyde, Lead, Aerospace, World Economic Forum.