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The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation (Minister: Kim Hyun-mi) and the Seoul Metropolitan Government (Acting Authority: 1st Deputy Mayor Seo Jeong-hyeop) demonstrated the current state of urban air traffic technologies, such as drone delivery and the taxi using the K-drone system in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 11th (Wednesday). The event (event name: Seoul Urban Air Traffic Demonstration) was held jointly.
The K-Drone system is a control system that supports the safe operation of many drones, and it is a key R&D task for drone delivery and taxi, and was the first to conduct a comprehensive demonstration at the center of the city after Incheon and Yeongwol this year.
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is attracting attention as a next-generation mobility that will allow travel on the air highway as an alternative solution to the problem of land traffic congestion in metropolitan areas.
The development speed of world-class electric power vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is progressing very rapidly, and there is a high possibility that commercial services will be introduced in the United States and Europe around the year 23-25.
To introduce urban air traffic, the government needs to develop technologies for the certification, operation and control of aircraft safety, and improve related systems along with the development of aircraft by the private sector.
Unlike the existing aviation industry, urban air traffic is a field where world-class leadership and technical standards have yet to be set. In this situation, the Korean government is cultivating and supporting the national urban air traffic industry by publishing a comprehensive roadmap before any other country in the world.
The government confirmed and announced the “Korea Urban Air Transport (K-UAM) Roadmap” (hereinafter “Roadmap”), including the target for the first commercialization of drone taxis in 25, in the 2nd innovation growth strategy meeting on June 4. The K-Drone System and Drone Taxi demonstration event promoted by the Ministry of Transport and Seoul is a follow-up to this roadmap.
The Seoul Demonstration Main Event, held at Yeouido Hangang Civic Park (Mulbit Stage), was conducted by four experts in each field on the subject of present and future of drones, K-drone system development, construction of a vertiport (eVTOL take-off and landing site) and the future and tasks of urban air transport. It was mainly carried out on the talk show held in
During the talk show, a letter containing the expectations of the citizens of Seoul on urban air traffic and items commemorating the event (November 11) are delivered directly to the location by drone, etc. Six drones with various missions such as geodetic and geodetic have completed the demonstration safely through the K-drone system.
In the “Seoul City Air Traffic Demonstration” (hereinafter “Seoul Demonstration”) under the subtitle “The City Opens the Sky”, various domestic and foreign development aircraft for taxi drones and small drones participated .
Electric powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are being developed based on electric power (green), distributed propulsion (low noise and safety) and vertical takeoff and landing (use of urban space). The urban flight of this eVTOL aircraft is the first in Korea, downtown Seoul, and the first in Korea. It is most important to fly from Yeouido, where the Yeouido airfield is located (formerly Yeouido Square, now Yeouido Park).
First, the flight scene of the aircraft being developed by small and medium-sized national companies with their own technology was remotely broadcast. In addition, Hyundai Motor Company and Hanwha Systems participating in UAM Team Korea (Chairman: Second Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport), which was launched last June, exhibited a model of the aircraft that is being developed for mass production. in each event room. Shared vision for market entry.
Overseas, a two-seater-class aircraft (EH216) developed by the Chinese company Lihang participated in the flight demonstration over the Han River in Yeouido and the United States Lift Aircraft single-seater-class aircraft (Hexa) exhibited a commercially developed aircraft at take-off and Participants were presented with various possibilities of eVTOL technology, such as emergency rescue.
Around the site of the Mulbit Stage event, which included vertical take-off and landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (TR-60, Korean Air), tilting and decomposing technology (self-developed anti-wooyeon) was applied, the technology contest “Gyeongnam PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) held in October. A new aircraft concept manufactured and researched in various fields such as manufacturers, hobbyists and universities was also presented, such as the winning work (reduced PAV, fourth aircraft) and the PAV-1 being developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. (KAIST).
Starting at 2:00 p.m., an online international conference (subsidiary event) on the subject of urban air traffic was broadcast live through the YouTube channel (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, UAM Korea Team). The conference hosted by Professor Kwan-jung Lee (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) of Seoul National University, who served as Chairman of the Seoul Demonstration Advisory Committee, includes the government (future Ministry Drone Transport Officer of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation), industry (Hyundai Motors, Hanwha Systems, Lee Hang, Lift Aircraft) Experts from various fields, such as academia (Aerospace Research Institute) and cultural circles (SM Entertainment), participated as presenters for reveal diverse visions and perspectives on the present and future of urban air transport.
In addition to the Seoul Demonstration, the government is promoting systematic demonstration projects for urban air traffic (K-UAM Grand Challenge, ’22 ~ ’24), Vertiport standards (eVTOL takeoff and landing) and research on employee qualifications. .
Second Deputy Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation, Sohn Myung-soo, who attended the event, emphasized: “We will smoothly implement the promotions revealed in the roadmap over 25 years of commercialization through industry-sector cooperation. academic”. In particular, “Through this Seoul demonstration, we will soon experience the future of urban air transport that will unfold in advance, and we will be able to confirm the various tasks that lie ahead, such as systems, technologies and services. In the future, agree with the roadmap, we plan to actively support the development of the national industry by continuing to provide flight meetings of drone taxis applied with new technologies such as eVTOL to national companies, and quickly preparing a reasonable system for commercialization ”.
Seoul’s Seo Jeong-hyeop (Deputy Mayor for Administration 1), who co-hosted the event, said, “We will constantly prepare together with the Korea UAM team so that marketing services can start here in Seoul.
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