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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Electric Vehicles

Whisk Over the Traffic Jams & Beyond

With seemingly daily announcements (e.g. yesterday’s Joby/Delta home to airport press release) about electric aviation, particularly electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL), it is easy to believe that we are at the peak of inflated expectations for this mode of travel. Underlying the public proclamations, glitzy graphics, and slick video animations, there are thousands of […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Cities Wireless

C-Band 5G’s Threat to Aviation

Note: The above explainer video from Alex Scerri was added on 12/2/20 Is the impeccable safety record of aviation threatened by the use of C-Band frequencies (specifically 3.7-3.98 GHz in the U.S.) for 5G? Yes, would be the conclusion one could draw from RTCA’s November 30th, 2020 webinar, Interference Risk to Radar Altimeters from Planned […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment

Preparing Communities for Takeoff

“We are focused on helping state and local decision-makers with figuring out urban mobility, understanding what e-VTOL aircraft are, what their opportunities and challenges are, and how to integrate this new technology into their communities and into their existing transportation landscapes in the most productive, most positive, most responsible way possible,” said Anna Mracek Dietrich, […]