Post by account_disabled on Feb 25, 2024 1:53:31 GMT -5
Vertiport automation.
In preparation for the upcoming launch of electric vertical takeoff and landing ( eVTOL ) vehicles, also known as flying taxis, Altaport has built the world's first vertiport automation system (VAS) to facilitate the future of travel by automating land infrastructure operations.
Launched within startup studio Philo Ventures, Altaport was co-founded by former Airbus and Google employees who saw the need to prepare current ground infrastructure for the future of high-volume eVTOL and cargo drone traffic.
The Altaport platform controls a variety of activities on behalf of ground infrastructure managers, including resource management and scheduling, ground movement safety control, passenger management, and fare collection. With Altaport, infrastructure managers can drive efficiency, revenue optimization and security at their landing facilities, while reducing staff workload.
“The industry is not prepared for the demand that is coming,” said Cory Cozzens, co-founder of Altaport and founding partner of Philo Ventures. “We are only a couple of years away from the in C Level Executive List troduction of eVTOL, but most landing infrastructure managers are still using archaic toolsets to manage their operations.”
Flying cars are expected to begin initial commercial flights by , and according to forecasts from NASA, McKinley and Morgan Stanley. Others predict that the advanced air mobility (AAM) market will grow to become a $ trillion market by , with a single vertiport serving more than autonomous flights per hour in cooperation with a network of up to vertiports within of a single metropolitan area. Robust, interoperable vertiports and operators, as described in NASA's July report titled "Vertiport Automation Software Architecture and Requirements."
Altaport's platform reflects and is based on the system described in NASA's VAS whitepaper. “We have spent more than a decade building and launching operations that largely reflect what future AAM operations will look like, giving us unique insight into the challenges and opportunities such operations present,” Cozzens said. “The Altaport team has combined the learnings from those experiences with the technical standards set by the industry to date to build the leading vertiport automation platform. When the first eVTOLs begin commercial operations, Altaport will be prepared to serve landing sites around the world.”
The Altaport platform is currently used at numerous major heliports across Brazil, playing an important role in the development of the AAM landing network of tomorrow. While helping heliports optimize their operations today, the partnerships also provide the Altaport team with the opportunity to gather invaluable real-time feedback within an environment that is very similar to AAM's future operations
In preparation for the upcoming launch of electric vertical takeoff and landing ( eVTOL ) vehicles, also known as flying taxis, Altaport has built the world's first vertiport automation system (VAS) to facilitate the future of travel by automating land infrastructure operations.
Launched within startup studio Philo Ventures, Altaport was co-founded by former Airbus and Google employees who saw the need to prepare current ground infrastructure for the future of high-volume eVTOL and cargo drone traffic.
The Altaport platform controls a variety of activities on behalf of ground infrastructure managers, including resource management and scheduling, ground movement safety control, passenger management, and fare collection. With Altaport, infrastructure managers can drive efficiency, revenue optimization and security at their landing facilities, while reducing staff workload.
“The industry is not prepared for the demand that is coming,” said Cory Cozzens, co-founder of Altaport and founding partner of Philo Ventures. “We are only a couple of years away from the in C Level Executive List troduction of eVTOL, but most landing infrastructure managers are still using archaic toolsets to manage their operations.”
Flying cars are expected to begin initial commercial flights by , and according to forecasts from NASA, McKinley and Morgan Stanley. Others predict that the advanced air mobility (AAM) market will grow to become a $ trillion market by , with a single vertiport serving more than autonomous flights per hour in cooperation with a network of up to vertiports within of a single metropolitan area. Robust, interoperable vertiports and operators, as described in NASA's July report titled "Vertiport Automation Software Architecture and Requirements."
Altaport's platform reflects and is based on the system described in NASA's VAS whitepaper. “We have spent more than a decade building and launching operations that largely reflect what future AAM operations will look like, giving us unique insight into the challenges and opportunities such operations present,” Cozzens said. “The Altaport team has combined the learnings from those experiences with the technical standards set by the industry to date to build the leading vertiport automation platform. When the first eVTOLs begin commercial operations, Altaport will be prepared to serve landing sites around the world.”
The Altaport platform is currently used at numerous major heliports across Brazil, playing an important role in the development of the AAM landing network of tomorrow. While helping heliports optimize their operations today, the partnerships also provide the Altaport team with the opportunity to gather invaluable real-time feedback within an environment that is very similar to AAM's future operations