Vancouver’s advanced air mobility report
The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) and Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium (CAAM) today released a report that suggests Vancouver could be a prime location for the development and utilization of advanced air mobility (AAM).
The report provides a review of successful international AAM hubs and a gap analysis of the Vancouver region for stakeholders to better understand the emerging AAM industry and the region’s greatest opportunities and barriers to success.
“It’s clear that advanced air mobility is coming to markets internationally, and Vancouver is already a test site for decarbonizing commercial aviation. We’re most interested in seeing how AAM will uplift – as opposed to displace – critical activities in some of Vancouver and BC’s existing sectors, like supporting search and rescue or wildfire responses,” says James Raymond, senior manager of research at the Vancouver Economic Commission and one of the report’s key contributors.
According to the report, Vancouver’s greatest assets as an AAM hub include its hydrogen fuel cell cluster, net-zero transportation, and drone manufacturers. These match well with what the report considers the highest-value uses of AAM, which include decarbonizing transportation via zero-emissions aviation using clean electric and hydrogen fuel cell technology and delivering critical payloads for medical, rescue, and other emergency or disaster response purposes.
“AAM has the potential to literally add an entirely different dimension to building Vancouver’s economic resilience,” says Raymond.
Date: March 29, 2023
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