{"id":134652,"date":"2022-01-25T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/british-startup-plans-to-develop-200-vertiport-sites-across-the-world"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:23:11","slug":"british-startup-plans-to-develop-200-vertiport-sites-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/british-startup-plans-to-develop-200-vertiport-sites-across-the-world","title":{"rendered":"British startup plans to develop 200 vertiport sites across the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/british-startup-plans-to-develop-200-vertiport-sites-across-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>British startup Urban-Air Port (UAP) has announced plans to open 200 flying taxi and cargo drone hubs in 65 cities globally over the next five years. The announcement comes following a significant investment from Supernal, a division of Hyundai Motor Group, to deliver on the company\u2019s shared vision of integrating advanced air mobility (AAM) into existing transit networks and creating a seamless passenger journey.<\/p>\n<p>UAP\u2019s vertiport sites will provide essential infrastructure to help enable mass adoption of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/eVTOL\/\">eVTOL<\/a> aircraft \u2013 such as cargo drones and air taxis \u2013 as public acceptance grows and will transform the way goods and people are transported around urban areas. The world\u2019s first fully operational hub for eVTOLs, Air-One, will open for public visitation in Coventry City Centre in April.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration will show how AAM can help unlock the potential of sustainable mobility and how the industry will work to help reduce congestion, cut air pollution and decarbonize transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British startup Urban-Air Port (UAP) has announced plans to open 200 flying taxi and cargo drone hubs in 65 cities globally over the next five years. The announcement comes following a significant investment from Supernal, a division of Hyundai Motor Group, to deliver on the company\u2019s shared vision of integrating advanced air mobility (AAM) into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}