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Volocopter Presents Blueprint for Urban Air Mobility Ground Infrastructure
The eVTOL aircraft developer says partners can use a handbook based on its VoloPort concept to develop landing sites for air taxi operations in cities.
Volocopter VoloPort
Volocopter has developed the VoloPort concept to provide landing sites for its planned eVTOL aircraft operations. (Image: Volocopter)

Volocopter is offering to share a new handbook covering ground infrastructure requirements for urban air mobility (UAM) services with partners involved in developing vertiports for eVTOL aircraft operations. The German eVTOL aircraft developer is providing its own VoloPort concept as a landing site template for the air taxi services that it expects to launch by 2024 with its two-seat VoloCity vehicle.

According to Volocopter, the handbook's information and guidance are based largely on collaborative work and discussions it has already had with government agencies such as aviation regulators, aircraft operators, and other institutions around the world. It also takes account of the development work conducted on the VoloCity and the larger, longer-range VoloConnect aircraft.

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