Air taxis are an exciting development in air mobility, but to get off the ground, these vehicles rely on infrastructure like vertiports and accompanying air traffic management procedures. The project will develop 4 solutions to pave the way for vertiports and Innovative Air Mobility in tomorrow’s cities: the complete arrival, departure and turnaround process for vertiports, collaborative traffic management, how to deal with emergencies and disruptions also the network flow, capacity and operational management. The project will provide recommendations for regulation/standardisation and any information that will accelerate and harmonise the development of UAM, VTOL operations and vertiports across Europe.

The project is developing industrial solutions demonstrated in operational environment and supporting the European Union's roadmaps, to accelerate and harmonise the development of Innovative Air Mobility (IAM), Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) operations and vertiports across Europe.

It will do so by developing four essential solutions:

• Arrival/departure to/from vertiport, encompassing route and trajectory planning,
• Vertiport collaborative traffic management, optimizing resource utilization and capacity allocation,
• Vertiport disruption and emergency management, ensuring preparedness for unforeseen circumstances,
• Vertiport network flow, capacity & operational management, enabling efficient coordination and operations across the vertiport network.