{"id":131508,"date":"2024-06-14T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/bus-bike-orair-taxi-us-cities-prep-for-road-free-travel\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T06:00:49","slug":"bus-bike-orair-taxi-us-cities-prep-for-road-free-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/bus-bike-orair-taxi-us-cities-prep-for-road-free-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus, bike or\u2026air taxi? US cities prep for road-free travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131508\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>It&#8217;s a bird&#8230;it&#8217;s a plane&#8230;no, it&#8217;s an air taxi and it&#8217;s coming in to land soon, prompting cities across the United States to get ready for airborne urban travel. Nobody yet knows exactly what an air taxi even is, how it might look or who will get to use it, but cities know it&#8217;s on the way and want to be ready for takeoff. None of the small, electric aircraft in development has yet won full U.S. regulatory approval, but the process is underway, with some companies vying to fly as early as next year. &#8220;This is coming sooner than a lot of people think,&#8221; said Jacques Coulon, mobility innovation manager for the city of Orlando in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The prototypes are far from uniform, with a host of competing designs for rotors and wings. Some are flown by in-vehicle pilots, others operate autonomously. &#8220;While we haven&#8217;t gotten an application, we&#8217;ll probably get one sooner than later, and we want to make sure we&#8217;re prepared,&#8221; Coulon told Context. Officials such as Coulon need to weigh the vehicles&#8217; possible upsides &#8211; for the local economy, jobs and connectivity &#8211; against potential problems such as noise, environmental damage and fears about safety or fairness. &#8220;What incremental changes can we make that allow for this new, innovative mobility option to occur in a way that won&#8217;t negatively impact our existing neighbourhoods,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Referred to as electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (or eVTOLs), the vision is for small, electric machines that can be used for local and regional transit, emergency or medical services, and more besides. Air taxis would operate more quietly and with less pollution than existing air travel options, backers say, allowing for more seamless integration into urban life. New York, Paris, Dubai and others are already building &#8220;vertiports&#8221;, where taxis could land and take off vertically, said Maria Alonso, head of autonomous mobility for the World Economic Forum. She said cities in the United States, China and UAE were leading the way in getting ready, but more attention was needed from local policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a real driving demand for this to happen quickly,&#8221; said Brittney Kohler, legislative director for transport and infrastructure at the National League of Cities umbrella group. Cities see a potential boon in terms of greater connectivity but are cautious, too, she said, about who will benefit.&#8221;We want to make sure we aren&#8217;t creating the same mistakes (as we did) with aviation&#8230;that really irritated communities and caused a lot of health and mental health impacts,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.context.news\/digital-divides\/bus-bike-orair-taxi-us-cities-prep-for-road-free-travel\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.context.news\/digital-divides\/bus-bike-orair-taxi-us-cities-prep-for-road-free-travel\">Context<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/bus-bike-or-air-taxi-us-cities-prep-for-road-free-travel\/\">Bus, bike or\u2026air taxi? US cities prep for road-free travel<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[14931,574,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-131508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-road-free-travel","tag-us","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}