Daegu City to Launch 'Drone Taxi' Over Suseongmot Lake ... "Leading Urban Air Mobility"

Flight Demonstration of Drone Taxi on the 16th ... Drone Performance and Other Side Events

Drone taxi aircraft.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Daegu City announced on the 12th that it will hold a 'Drone Taxi Public Flight Demonstration Event' in collaboration with Suseong-gu at Suseong Lake on the 16th.

This event, held as part of the Korean Urban Air Mobility (K-UAM) roadmap announced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in June, is the first flight demonstration to be conducted in Korea this year. Previously, Daegu City was selected along with Seoul and Jeju Island in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's public contest project.

In this demonstration flight, one aircraft (Ehang 216) manufactured by the Chinese company Ehang will operate over the water surface of Suseong Lake. As a side event, a 'Drone Entertainment Performance,' a future content combining culture and technology, and a 'Drone Art Show' featuring a swarm flight of 200 drones will also be presented.

Globally, metropolitan areas are experiencing severe traffic congestion due to the concentration of human resources. Recently, attention has been focused on 'Urban Air Mobility' (UAM), a three-dimensional transportation means flying in the air, as a new alternative to solve this problem.

Urban Air Mobility is a three-dimensional mobility industry that transports people and cargo over urban airspace using electric power (motors, batteries, etc.). It is a new industry and innovative transportation means that integrates various technologies and industries such as aviation, automobiles, ICT, and AI, and Daegu City expects it to create enormous added value in the future.

Hong Ui-rak, Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs of Daegu City, said, "The urban air mobility market is a new growth engine market expected to reach a global market size of 730 trillion won and a domestic market size of 13 trillion won by 2040," adding, "We will prepare so that Daegu City can lead urban air mobility, which is emerging as a new future mobility."

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