{"id":298035,"date":"2019-10-26T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T05:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298035"},"modified":"2019-10-26T10:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T05:24:50","slug":"looking-to-take-off-flying-taxis-might-soon-be-a-staple-of-urban-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/looking-to-take-off-flying-taxis-might-soon-be-a-staple-of-urban-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking to take off: Flying taxis might soon be a staple of urban transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying taxis, once the purview of science-fiction films such as The Fifth Element, might soon be a staple of urban transport, as better batteries and innovative designs make it cheaper, cleaner, and quieter to travel short distances by air. Citigroup thinks sales of air taxis could reach $5 billion a year by the end of the next decade. <\/p>\n<p>Two companies came to Singapore this week to share their vision during the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress. UK-based Skyports built a model flying taxi station, while Germany\u2019s Volocopter gave a demonstration flight of its electric vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>Engineers from the two companies walked reporters through how it might work. A traveller opens an app and chooses among a handful of stations in a given city \u2014 flying between the posh Marina Bay Sands hotel and the luxury resort island of Sentosa was one option this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying taxis, once the purview of science-fiction films such as The Fifth Element, might soon be a staple of urban transport, as better batteries and innovative designs make it cheaper, cleaner, and quieter to travel short distances by air. Citigroup thinks sales of air taxis could reach $5 billion a year by the end of the next decade. Two companies came to Singapore this week to share their vision during the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress. UK-based Skyports built a model flying taxi station, while Germany\u2019s Volocopter gave a demonstration flight of its electric vehicle. Engineers from the two companies [&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-298035","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\/298035","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=298035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}