{"id":295226,"date":"2019-10-07T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295226"},"modified":"2019-10-07T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:02:19","slug":"british-firm-says-its-building-a-hub-for-flying-taxis-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-firm-says-its-building-a-hub-for-flying-taxis-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"British firm says it&#8217;s building a hub for flying taxis in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British company says it\u2019s building the world\u2019s first \u201cvertiport\u201d for electric aircraft in Singapore, an early step towards a global network for flying taxis.<br \/>\nEssex-based Skyports Ltd. plans to show off the vertical take-off and landing station at Marina Bay during the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress from Oct. 21-25. Germany\u2019s Volocopter GmbH will bring along its electric aircraft for a demonstration flight. <\/p>\n<p>Urban air transport isn\u2019t new\u2014helicopters have been doing it for decades. What\u2019s changing is that better batteries and innovative designs are making it cheaper, cleaner and quieter. Companies are just trying to demonstrate the technology\u2019s capabilities for now, but a report from Citigroup said sales of air taxis could reach $5 billion by the end of the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British company says it\u2019s building the world\u2019s first \u201cvertiport\u201d for electric aircraft in Singapore, an early step towards a global network for flying taxis. Essex-based Skyports Ltd. plans to show off the vertical take-off and landing station at Marina Bay during the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress from Oct. 21-25. Germany\u2019s Volocopter GmbH will bring along its electric aircraft for a demonstration flight. Urban air transport isn\u2019t new\u2014helicopters have been doing it for decades. What\u2019s changing is that better batteries and innovative designs are making it cheaper, cleaner and quieter. Companies are just trying to demonstrate the technology\u2019s capabilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}