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Comments Off on Autonomous Air Taxis Planned for Miami, Los Angeles MIAMI, Florida, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – Autonomous air taxis will fly the skies over Miami, Florida by 2024, if plans by California-based Archer Aviation come to fruition. The company’s Miami announcement came a week after Archer executives met with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez to discuss the company’s intention to establish an urban air mobility network in the South Florida city to serve its nearly 500,000 residents. “We know that infrastructure and transportation solutions in southern Florida must change over the next decade to curb carbon emissions, decrease traffic, and create the multimodal transportation networks of the future,” said Mayor Suarez. ....
The testbed is well-chosen. Southern California has severe mobility challenges, including consistently gridlocked traffic, under-utilized or poorly developed mass transit, and a seemingly inability to make solutions like high-speed rail a reality. Those conditions have left a wide-open space for a technology class that in just the past couple of years has leapfrogged out of science fiction to become a promising alternative to terrestrial intracity travel. In identifying our first city partnership, it was critical to have a shared vision when it comes to how people will move around more seamlessly and with less impact on the environment around them, says Brett Adcock, co-Founder and co-CEO of Archer. Working with Urban Movement Labs will be invaluable as we collectively advance our programs ahead of our first customer flights in 2024. ....
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Los Angeles will soon have an âinnovation zoneâ for testing mobility products This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced the creation of the cityâs first Transportation Technology Innovation Zone â an area where private sector firms can test their transportation technology solutions. Designed by Mayor Garcetti and City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, the zone is one of the flagship programs of Urban Movement Labs (UML) â the transportation solutions accelerator launched in November 2019 â and aims to transform the Warner Center neighborhood into âone of LAâs mobility innovation and workforce development hubsâ. ....