Volocopter, SITA Partner in UAM Infrastructure

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SITA and Volocopter Accomplice in City Air Mobility Infrastructure

DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M by Crosby

City air mobility (UAM) chief Volocopter air transport trade enters right into a partnership with IT supplier SITA. The settlement positions SITA as Volocopter’s most well-liked digital and IT techniques companion 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 period of sustainable aviation by offering a number of mobility choices to cities all over the world. Volocopter’s VoloCity electrical air taxi will function routes in megacities to offer passengers with a secure and dependable technique of transportation. Passengers will be capable of greet a flight by designated boarding factors (or “vertiports”).

SITA will leverage its air transport experience to create new working requirements and a digital precedence passenger expertise for the burgeoning UAM trade. The corporate’s portfolio consists of a variety of IT options, together with airport administration and operations, passenger operations, flight and plane operations, baggage dealing with and border administration.

Identified for its built-in UAM ecosystem strategy, Volocopter’s VoloIQ digital working system connects all companions, permitting a digital-first strategy that leads to end-to-end passenger air transport experiences. The system is at present present process the certification course of carried out by the related aviation authorities.

“Volocopter persistently takes a holistic ecosystem strategy. Working in live performance with our companions, we put together for industrial operations,” he mentioned. “This consists of establishing the mandatory infrastructure, upkeep, flight operations, IT and customer support. SITA is a number one IT supplier for airports and airways, and we imagine there is no such thing as a higher companion to allow our seamless journey expertise.”

“Volocopter is within the pole place to make electrical air taxis a actuality, profiting from the first-mover benefit. At SITA, we’ll play a key position in delivering this new world of digital UAM and defining a seamless, smarter strategy to air journey in an city surroundings,” mentioned Sergio Colella, President of SITA Europe. Sometime we’ll flip idea into apply.”

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Ian attended the Dominican College of California the place he earned a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a powerful curiosity in know-how, he now contributes to DroneLife as a employees author.

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