FLYING TAXIS ARRIVE: WE LEAVE FROM ROME AND VENICE

BIG DATA can help the environment. How?

Providing data to urban and sky transport and supporting the activity of flying taxis. New in the panorama of mobility in Italy and growing sector is that of Advanced Air Mobility, a new form of aerial mobility through vehicles to take-off and vertical landing, and Urban Air Mobility. Not only small drones that can carry packages, as is already the case in the United States, but also real flying taxis, of the latest generation, electric and that take advantage of very detailed information on the needs of people traveling.

In Italy, Urban V, a startup founded by Aeroporti di Roma, Save (Venice Airport), Aeroports de la Côte d'Azur and Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Bologna, has started, with a view to growth and development worldwide, an innovative sustainable mobility project that will start from Rome and then expand nationally and internationally. The business includes the offer of Advanced Air Mobility services, initially in Italy and France, and the construction and management of networks of the so-called "Vertiporti"ground infrastructure allowing the vertical take-off and landing of electric passenger aeroplanes. Basically, flying taxis.

Urban V uses Big Data from WINDTRE BUSINESS Retail Analytics : this information integrates timely data on socio-demographic background, habits and mobility, allowing companies to better identify their targets and set performance strategies. This is an area in which WINDTRE, thanks to its role as a leading operator in the Italian mobile market, has the possibility to access, in full respect of privacy.

As Luca Cardone , 5G & Corporate Solution Manager at WINDTRE explains: "Through Data Analytics solutions we can realize in-depth analysis of mobility flows, which translate into effective business strategies for companies and public administrations. In the case of Urban V, through travel and traffic data, we have supported the development of development plans based on real demand and citizens' needs, also with a view to decarbonising urban transport".

Massimiliano Pane , Head of Business Development & Finance at Urban V, says: "The collaboration with WINDTRE has allowed us to identify the areas with the highest market potential for the next start of connections between airports and city centers. Above all, thanks to the precious information obtained from Big Data, we will be able to realize a service strongly oriented to the sustainability and to contribute to the decongestion of the street traffic already starting from the airport zones of Rome, Venice and Bologna, the first Italian cities involved in the project".

WINDTRE, in fact, thanks to its network infrastructure and the skills of its Data Scientist and Data Engineer team, is able to collect and analyze, in total security, a huge mass of data per day, thanks to 14 billion "day by day" interactions on all your touchpoints. WINDTRE BUSINESS makes available to Urban V i Big Data on potential customers and travel needs, allowing you to evaluate and measure the real demand for mobility services to and in the cities of Rome, Bologna and Venice, in order to elaborate infrastructural development plans coherent with the needs of citizens and tourists.
By 2024, Urban V will start operations in Rome, Venice and Bologna: these will be the first Italian cities to benefit from flying taxis.