very happy to talk today about the topic
I am very passionate about it’s about
two years ago that a small revolution
started innovation and that could change
the way people are traveling in big
cities and we call it urban air mobility
so due to a set of new technologies I
think it will be possible in the next
ten years that we use the serta mention
for traveling so when we started to
think about that kind of solution so the
first thing you have to do is you want
to know which basic problem do you want
to solve and that has much to do with
so-called mega cities so to choose
United Nations a mega city is defined as
a city with more than 10 million
inhabitants
and today we have about 30 of them so
that more than 300 million people are
potentially affected by traffic jams so
just to give an example in London it
takes you about 300 hours you lose per
year in traffic jams and that’s that’s
huge
so that means you have less time for
your family your friends and your
recreation so regarding to the future
more and more people move to the cities
they want to work sir they want to
participate on the cultural life that’s
called urbanization and due to the
ongoing organization so a number of the
mega cities would even increase so that
about 500 million people will be
affected from traffic jams and in the
year 2030 about five billion people will
live in urban areas and that will be
represent 60 percent of the world
population so we have additionally to
add to this 500 million people billions
of people who are potentially affected
from traffic jams so that means that
these urban areas have really to improve
the efficiency of
a transport system so having looked to
this so you want to be stucked in there
so what does that mean so for example
you already know one dimensional travel
so it’s taking a train or an underground
train regarding at the two dimensional
travel it’s taking the car or bus or
even a boat so the system have a big
disadvantage so in the rush hour this is
a scalability is limited as you see here
so you have a lot of bottlenecks
furthermore when you look at ground
infrastructure the cost for that are
massive just to give an example when you
want to build a motorway it’s about 200
million euro and when you want to build
an underground train tunnel it’s even
worse it’s 1 billion euro per kilometer
and addition to the construction cost
you have to add some maintenance during
the life cycle so having a look at saw
Paula this case is very interesting
because it’s a very huge city it’s about
20 million citizens and more and even
now there is a flying taxis available
based on traditional helicopters so the
city has about 700 through gives totally
copters and so it has more helicopters
than New York and Tokyo together so we
had a look at that and we found out that
there are hundreds of helicopter flights
per day so it’s only city with an
dedicated helicopter traffic management
in the world so to manage all these
flights regarding to the ground
infrastructures we are about 150 fully
operational helipads available so we ask
yourself why does this not scale up to a
mass market so it’s difficult to ask to
answer that but surely one thing is the
economics so it’s very expensive to fly
of an helicopter
and currently the flight hours about two
and a half thousand dollar and addition
to that when you want to have about
thousands of air vehicles over Sao Paulo
you would need a new generation of
traffic management system for the air
and regarding the time when you drive if
your crowns or pall from the airport to
the city center it takes you one and a
half hour one-way and compared with an
helicopter flight it’s about ten minutes
but of course you have to add the
boarding times and deboarding times but
even then it’s much more much faster so
knowing that flying taxi solutions even
exist today what is our vision so it’s
to enable a new generation of transport
solution by using the third dimension so
it’s for everyone so we want the belief
that it will become a mass market
probably not in the first generation but
we think a long time in evasion and it
has to be convenient and safe so the
passenger has to like this kind of
solution and it’s a very important point
and now we are again at the economics it
has to be affordable so that means that
flight trip from the airport to the city
center should not cost more than taking
a car taxi so having a fraud look into
the value chain of this van a mobility
solution so first of all you need to
design to develop to certify and to
produce an urban aircraft it needs to be
really dedicated to fly in big cities so
that means it has to be a high grade of
safety it needs to be very low noise and
of course it has to be it needs very low
acquisition price regarding the support
and service you really need a
maintenance concept which allows very
low maintenance cost and also to to
guarantee very high availability of your
fleet
regarding the flight operations you have
to ensure that it’s safe and that it’s
seamless for the passenger so the
passenger really has to like it to be on
the flight and regarding the atrophic
management this is a very central block
to get a solution running so that means
when you have for example today let’s
say 20 aircraft over San Francisco at
the same time and now imagine you would
have 5000 air vehicles in the Ospreys
you need a very new kind of generation
of air traffic management system to
manage this kind of air traffic so you
need to switch from a centric one as
today to a decent week one for example
by using black blockchain technology
yeah so that means that kind of this
traffic management logic is included in
the vehicles and that vehicles can avoid
each other and communicate with you
regarding the ground infrastructure it’s
not only about the number of having
enough Haley pets in a big city it’s
also board to ensure that ground
infrastructure communicates with their
workers and it’s also about question if
you fly electric we have to find a
solution whether to replace the
batteries or to recharge them and this
has consequence of on the design of say
a vehicle and on the operational concept
and last but not least the passenger
solution you need to develop an
smartphone app so that you can book your
flight and communicate with the solution
and also do billing so in all these
blocks there are a lot of activities
ongoing from different companies from
different organization and authorities I
picked one which is for me the most
fascinating one it’s urban aircraft and
from from all these many concepts I
picked one and we call it the city
Airbus so what is new on this kind of
vehicle compared to a traditional AKOP
so traditional helicopter are designed
for at least
and more missions like emergency
helicopter police corporate transport
oil and gas sector utility but this
arable city Ibis is designed for one
mission only and that passenger
transport within big cities so that
means one mission means that you can
reduce your development cost and reduce
your occuring cost furthermore it’s a
multicopter architecture so you have
four main propulsion units and each of
them has two propeller counter-rotating
and that’s basically to increase safety
furthermore it’s all electric so locally
a mission free to help to improve the
green footprint of the cities it has a
very modular concept so it allows very
low production cost and also very low
direct operating cost and yeah so
currently there are a lot of very
engaged and motivated engineers working
on that started about one year ago and
the first flight the maiden flight is
planned end of this year and we are very
happy and looking for raw to get this
milestone done and I would like to thank
you for your attention and I’m happy to
discuss the question later on Thanks [Applause]