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The sky's the limit: The future of urban air mobility
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By Airbus • last updated: 17/07/2018
In the sustainable megalopolis of tomorrow, flying cars will lift off from busy streets to swiftly and safely navigate the skies alongside self-piloted electric air taxis and parcel delivery drones.
Far from being a scene from Total Recall or some other science fiction movie, this aerial cityscape is set to become our reality in the not too distant future.
In the meantime, metro areas are becoming denser, more trafficked and polluted. By 2050, about 2.5 billion more people will be living in cities.
While congestion is already pushing metropolises — from Los Angeles to London — to their limits, the skies have been largely under-utilised. Airbus and other forward-looking firms see an opportunity.
The aerospace giant is heading its skyward charge through cutting-edge concept and demonstration vehicles and projects that will change urban air mobility forever.
Safe, effective, fluid integration with soft and hard infrastructure is crucial to making this happen.
Hail-a-Copter
This future starts now, by maximising current flight infrastructure — an approach taken by premier on-demand helicopter booking platform Voom. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Airbus Helicopters, it was born in A³ — the European company's Silicon Valley innovation outpost.
Voom launched commercial operations in 2017 in São Paulo, followed by Mexico City. This was by design. Both locales are notorious for heavy ground traffic (Mexico City was recently dubbed home to the world's worst congestion). Importantly, there are more than 400 helipads in São Paulo; over 200 in the Mexican capital.
Voom's prices are up to 80 percent lower than those of a standard helicopter service. Costs could be further reduced when its unmanned electric choppers become available.
Customers simply click and order a copter on Voom's mobile site, one hour to one week in advance. Fifteen minutes after arriving at the nearest designated helipad and they're whisked away— in some cases flying into their destination in 12 minutes, instead of sitting in three-hour peak gridlock.
The efficient, reliable, cost-effective service has been called 'the Uber of helicopters.'
Perhaps no coincidence, as a 2016 on-demand chopper collaboration between Airbus and the San Francisco tech and transport business, was a precursor to Voom.
Fantastic Flying Machines
Sci-fi fans have dreamed of a time when commuters would traverse the skies in flying cars. These multimodal vehicles — which can cruise urban thoroughfares and then be retooled for vertical take-off and flight — have seen some exciting real-world advances.
Airbus and its partner Italdesign showcased Pop.Up, their self-piloted multimodal transport concept, at last year's Geneva International Motor Show. The well-received modular flying car is primed to skirt city traffic, as its capsule unlatches from a ground module — transforming it into a metro aircraft.
The term 'flying car' is also loosely used to describe some electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles; quieter and cleaner, they could some day be used as regularly as today's personal automobiles. This innovation space, particularly in one- to four-seaters, has been buzzing.
Germany's Volocopter has signed an agreement with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai to test the two-seat, 18-rotor electric Autonomous Air Taxi. Working with the Dubai Civil Aviation authority, RTA will co-develop the necessary operational and legislative guidelines.
Aerospace heavyweights are also surging ahead with eVTOLs. A³'s autonomous single-passenger (or cargo) Vahana prototype had its first full-scale test flight in January — inching closer to obtaining its own unique aviation authority classification. Fitted with detect and avoid technology, it also features a deployable ballistic parachute, which functions at low altitudes.
Meanwhile, Airbus Helicopters is pressing on with the four-seat self-piloted CityAirbus demonstrator, which underscores cost-efficiency and a low environmental footprint.
Both programmes aim to improve air safety by reducing human error through full automation (once regulations are in place).
The flurry of activity around eVTOLs calls for new hard infrastructure to support urban adoption. New York's Blade is laying the foundations for tomorrow's take-off and landing areas (or 'vertiports'). The aviation startup has raised funds from Airbus Helicopters, global real estate investment firm Colony Northstar and others, to aid in such development.
Air Taxi Hubs
• eVTOL infrastructure may end up being cost-beneficial and space-saving as the aircraft don't rely on runways, railways, bridges or tunnels
• Networks of take-off and landing zones – 'vertiports' – will be needed as well as on-site electrical charging stations
• Existing helipads and rooftop levels of parking garages can be adaptively re-used for such purposes
Blueprints for the Sky
It's 2030. A big sporting event in Berlin triggers flight restrictions which only permit media drones overhead. Other aircraft are redirected to their destinations, while emergency vehicles are given priority access. When the games end, normal air traffic seamlessly resumes.
A³'s Altiscope project can bring such scenarios to life as 'blueprints for the sky' — helping shape
next generation infrastructure, air traffic control systems and regulations.
It will provide policymakers, manufacturers, operators and service providers with the tools they need to ensure safe and orderly integration of eVTOL and other visionary vehicles in the ever-complex urban skyline.
Altiscope will be able to explore, for example, how unmanned aerial systems may be used for medical aid transport in rural areas.
The project is enabling such solutions through decision modelling, data-driven policy simulation and deep analysis, assessing risks and blazing a trail towards new industry standards.
Robot-Loaded, Drone-Delivered
Tech-powered package shipping could give new meaning to the age-old term 'air mail.'
Behemoths like Alphabet/Google and Amazon have been active in developing delivery drones and are, along with others, supporting a privately-run and funded air traffic control network, distinct from the federal order.
Airbus Helicopters is experimenting with unmanned drone delivery and its related logistics and infrastructure in South East Asia — teaming up with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) on the roll-out of the Skyways project.
Currently trialing with staff and students at the National University of Singapore campus, the drones depart from a maintenance centre, averting collisions by flying along aerial corridors. They land on a custom-designed parcel station roof.
There, a robot arm loads them up with small two to four kilogram packages. The drones fly the parcels to a storage locker hub, where they are collected by recipients.
Airbus and CAAS are also supporting secure and reliable air delivery in cities by joining forces with the European Aviation Safety Agency. Under a recently signed agreement, the three parties will help develop safety standards and regulatory requirements for urban unmanned aircraft systems.
Ultimately, all the companies, organisations, governments and regulators furthering urban air mobility innovations, are collectively contributing to an unprecedented aviation infrastructure and regulatory framework for what may well end up being the most impactful industry of the 21st century.
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El Torneig de Barcelona 2018, també conegut com a Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell 2018 i Trofeu Comte de Godó 2018, és una competició tennística disputada sobre terra batuda i que pertany a les sèries 500 de l'ATP. La 66a edició del torneig es va celebrar entre el 21 i el 29 d'abril del 2018 al Reial Club de Tennis Barcelona a Barcelona, Catalunya.

Caps de sèrie

Individual masculí

Dobles masculins

Campions/es

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  Rafael Nadal va derrotar  Stéfanos Tsitsipàs, 6−2, 6−1

Dobles masculins

  Feliciano López /  Marc López van derrotar  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi /  Jean-Julien Rojer, 7−6(5), 6−4

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Last week's MacBook update marks the first Apple hardware release since the October 26 debut of Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X. As the operation system affects so much of system's performance, we needed to retool our benchmarking suite. And so this benchmark chart marks the debut of Speedmark 5. You can read more about it on the Speedmark page, but the short version of the story is that we've added a few tests, removed a few others, and changed the baseline system to be a 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo Mac mini with 2GBs of RAM running OS X 10.5.
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Best results in bold. Reference system in italics .
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R.S. §9:303 Income Assignment
§9:303. Income assignment; new orders; deviation
A. In all new child support orders after January 1, 1994, that are not being enforced by the Department of Children and Family Services, the court shall include as part of the order an immediate income assignment unless there is a written agreement between the parties or the court finds good cause not to require an immediate income assignment.
B. For purposes of this Section:
(1) "Written agreement" means a written alternative arrangement signed by both parents, reviewed by the court, and entered into the record of the proceedings.
(2) "Good cause" exists upon a showing by the respondent that any of the following exist:
(a) There has been no delinquency in payment of child support for the six calendar months immediately preceding the filing of the motion for modification of an existing child support order.
(b) The respondent is agreeable to a consent judgment authorizing an automatic ex parte immediate income assignment if he becomes delinquent in child support payments for a period in excess of one calendar month.
(c) The respondent is not likely to become delinquent in the future.
(d) Any other sufficient evidence which, in the court's discretion, constitutes good cause.
C. An income assignment order issued pursuant to this Section shall be payable through the Louisiana state disbursement unit for collection and disbursement of child support payments as provided in R.S. 46:236.11 and shall be governed by the same provisions as immediate income assignment orders that are being enforced by the department, including R.S. 46:236.1.1 et seq. All clerks of court in the state shall provide information to the state disbursement unit on income assignment orders issued pursuant to this Section. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this Section in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
Acts 1993, No. 145, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1121, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 1998; Acts 2010, No. 238, §1.

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