NEW DELHI: The drone coverage unveiled last month will make air taxi operation in India a truth quickly, minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha stated on Thursday.
The minister took to twitter to proportion his optimism after he met a delegation from the taxi-hailing corporate Uber, which has shortlisted India for its proposed aerial taxi provider.
"Met with @Uber Elevate team. India offers an encouraging and responsive regulatory framework to solve the challenge of urban transportation. With our progressive drone policies, we want to see air taxis becoming a reality soon!," the minister tweeted and tagged a photograph with the Uber group.
Officials in the ministry stated the Uber group had come to know "how India is thinking about this space (air taxi)" .
The delegation included chief executive of the Uber aviation programme Eric Allison, who on Wednesday made a presentation in Mumbai about its aerial taxi provider, the price of flying and the time saved in intra-city travel.
The meeting of the group with Sinha came against the backdrop of the government unveiling the ideas last month for business use of drones in the nation from December 1, 2018. The guidelines are aimed toward enabling protected, business usage of such taxis, amongst others.
Allison in Mumbai had stated that the price of flying through the provider, which targets to make use of rooftops of high-rises and erect dedicated 'skyports', shall be at par with its taxis.
He defined that the automobiles used for it are comparable to helicopters with more than one rotors that will fly low to keep the airspace unfastened for jets and also have low noise levels.
The corporate has named Dallas and Los Angeles in the United States as the first two towns for the industrial launch of its aerial taxi provider by 2023 and has been on the lookout to choose a world metropolis as its third partner.
It has shortlisted 5 international locations - India, Japan, Australia, Brazil and France - and considered one of them will become the first Uber Air City outside the United States.
The minister took to twitter to proportion his optimism after he met a delegation from the taxi-hailing corporate Uber, which has shortlisted India for its proposed aerial taxi provider.
"Met with @Uber Elevate team. India offers an encouraging and responsive regulatory framework to solve the challenge of urban transportation. With our progressive drone policies, we want to see air taxis becoming a reality soon!," the minister tweeted and tagged a photograph with the Uber group.
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— Jayant Sinha (@jayantsinha) 1536221452000Officials in the ministry stated the Uber group had come to know "how India is thinking about this space (air taxi)" .
The delegation included chief executive of the Uber aviation programme Eric Allison, who on Wednesday made a presentation in Mumbai about its aerial taxi provider, the price of flying and the time saved in intra-city travel.
The meeting of the group with Sinha came against the backdrop of the government unveiling the ideas last month for business use of drones in the nation from December 1, 2018. The guidelines are aimed toward enabling protected, business usage of such taxis, amongst others.
Allison in Mumbai had stated that the price of flying through the provider, which targets to make use of rooftops of high-rises and erect dedicated 'skyports', shall be at par with its taxis.
He defined that the automobiles used for it are comparable to helicopters with more than one rotors that will fly low to keep the airspace unfastened for jets and also have low noise levels.
The corporate has named Dallas and Los Angeles in the United States as the first two towns for the industrial launch of its aerial taxi provider by 2023 and has been on the lookout to choose a world metropolis as its third partner.
It has shortlisted 5 international locations - India, Japan, Australia, Brazil and France - and considered one of them will become the first Uber Air City outside the United States.
Air taxis in India a reality soon, says Jayant Sinha
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