Gyeonggi-do to Launch Commercial UAM in 2025

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

Gyeonggi Province is pushing for the commercialization of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) by the end of 2025.

On the 15th, Gyeonggi Province announced that it attended the 6th main council meeting of UAM Team Korea, hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the 12th, to discuss future plans for the commercialization of urban air mobility.

Earlier, in March last year, Gyeonggi Province was selected as the project operator for the second phase of the Korean Urban Air Mobility (K-UAM) Grand Challenge, a public contest project by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

The Ministry plans to conduct demonstration experiments for the second phase of the Korean Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge from July 2024 to June 2025, focusing on the metropolitan area, and then proceed with commercialization by the end of 2025.

Through a demand survey of cities and counties for the second phase project, Gyeonggi Province submitted the demonstration route section proposed by Goyang City to the Ministry, which finalized the demonstration route on the 12th.

The second phase demonstration route section is a 14 km route connecting Gimpo Airport to Goyang KINTEX.

Gyeonggi Province and Goyang City will provide a site of approximately 18,000 square meters (5,400 pyeong) near the KINTEX exhibition center as a space for demonstration experiments. They will also actively support various administrative procedures necessary for site development.

Kim Hyun-dae, Director of the Future Growth Industry Bureau of the province, emphasized, "Urban air mobility is emerging as a new mode of transportation that can dramatically improve urban traffic and environmental issues," adding, "We will actively cooperate and provide necessary support to successfully carry out demonstrations with the government, Goyang City, and related companies."

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