Integrating Advanced Air Mobility: A Primer For Cities Released by Urban Movement Labs in Partnership with the City of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES,Dec. 12, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Urban Movement Labs, in partnership with theCity of Los Angeles, announced the publishing ofIntegrating Advanced Air Mobility: A Primer For Cities.Electric aircraft are on track to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2025, which opens a pathway for limited commercial deployment soon thereafter. To understand the AAM landscape and inform future policies, theCity of Los Angelespartnered with Urban Movement Labs to understand how this new mobility technology would impact Angelenos and complement city-wide mobility goals.Integrating Advanced Air Mobility: A Primer For Citiesdocuments how UML and theCity of Los Angeleshave approached learning about and engaging on the topic, and provides a framework for other cities to follow.
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) refers to new aviation technologies that take advantage of new propulsion systems and advances in autonomous operations, such as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. AAM proponents aim to leverage new technologies to reduce or eliminate negative externalities associated with noise and emissions, while increasing accessibility to more residents.
Developers of these new technologies and aircraft have viewedLos Angelesas a prime launch market since 2018. In response, theCity of Los Angelescollaborated with the World Economic Forum to create the Principles of the Urban Sky in 2020. To build off of these principles, the Office of MayorEric Garcettiannounced a collaboration between theCity of Los Angelesand Urban Movement Labs, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization committed to shaping equitable transportation solutions for Angelenos.
The goals of the AAM Partnership are to inform and engage community members, interface with the industry and follow technology and policy development, and to support the City in policy development. While a formal policy response has not taken place, the AAM partnership assures that the city will not be starting from scratch and will already have a developed understanding of AAM technology, impacts, and opportunities when the community requests this work to be done.
Integrating Advanced Air Mobility: A Primer For Citiesis a culmination of the first phase of work completed by the AAM partnership. The primer provides other cities and jurisdictions seeking to understand how they might begin exploring their own policy response to emerging AAM technologies. It accomplishes this by providing a review of the state of the AAM industry in terms of technology development and emerging policy at the federal level. A 'flight plan' summarizes steps theCity of Los Angeleshas taken thus far in laying a foundation for future policy development. Finally, emerging opportunities and considerations guide near- and mid-term decision making.
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Notable Quotes:
"Los Angelesis leading the clean transportation revolution — charting a path to a future city that is better connected and less congested," saidLos AngelesMayorEric Garcetti."With Urban Movement Labs, we're also creating a model for how innovations like Advanced Air Mobility can help cities to reduce commute times and create green transportation options."
Urban Movement Labs is a first-of-its-kind mobility-innovation organization that links government, businesses, and community members to modern technology solutions to help solve transportation challenges in theCity of Los Angeles.With the support ofLos Angeles'Mayor's Office, Urban Movement Labs aims to makeLos Angelesthe model city for safe, sustainable, equitable, and efficient movement of people and goods and replicate these learnings around the world.
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