Air taxis for people and drones for transporting cargo or for emergency support are a future reality. Urban air mobility, or Urban Air Mobility (UAM), thereby offers the opportunity to make cities more sustainable and ‘smart’. This prospect has given rise to the ‘Air Mobility Urban - Large Experimental Demonstrations’ (AMU-LED) project, an H2020 European Commission project with the main goal of demonstrating the safe integration of different types of drone operations in the airspace of our cities.

It is therefore an ambitious initiative that, with a duration of two years, will lead to one of the largest demonstrations of the application of drones for urban mobility ever in 2022. Locations have been chosen in three different countries: Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Cranfield in the UK and Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Enschede in the Netherlands.

In total, the project involves 17 different entities from Europe and the United States. Coordinated by everis, the consortium comprises a large number of prominent parties: Airbus, AirHub, Altitude Angel, ANRA Technologies, Boeing Research & Technology-Europe, FADA-CATEC, Cranfield University, EHang, ENAIRE, Municipality of Amsterdam , INECO, ITG, Jeppesen, NLR, Space53 and Tecnalia.

More about AMU-LED at www.space53.eu.