Uber Elevate and GE Aviation Team to Enhance Safety for Next-Generation Ridesharing
October 14 2020 - 11:34AM
Business Wire
Uber Elevate selected GE Aviation’s Digital Group as an
ecosystem partner for their aerial ridesharing program. The initial
phase of this program will develop requirements for a flight data
monitoring program to support electric vertical takeoff and landing
(eVTOL) vehicles on the Uber platform.
“This partnership will help expand our digital innovation as the
travel industry continues to evolve,” said Andrew Coleman, general
manager of GE Aviation’s Digital Group. “We’re able to bring our
experience in digital across the travel ecosystem by helping
travelers reach their destination safely and efficiently.”
The Uber Elevate team is working toward transforming the world
through aerial ridesharing at scale. Initial launch of its Uber Air
service is planned for 2023 utilizing electric VTOL (vertical
takeoff and landing) aircraft in Dallas and Los Angeles.
“Safety is a core value for Uber Elevate – we are voluntarily
implementing a safety management system and developing voluntary
programs that have yielded proven safety benefits for the aviation
industry,” said John Illson, head of aviation safety with Uber
Elevate.
Flight Data Monitoring (FDM), is the process of analyzing and
reviewing routinely recorded flight data. Airlines and operators
that adopt Flight Data Monitoring are better able to identify and
eliminate potential safety hazards in flight operations. Since its
introduction in the airline industry more than 20 years ago, Flight
Data Monitoring has been widely credited with reducing incident and
accident rates at airlines and aircraft operators where it has been
adopted.
GE Aviation’s Flight Data Monitoring program and industry
experience working with some of the world’s largest flight data
bench marking programs made this partnership a natural fit for Uber
Elevate.
“Uber Elevate’s eVTOL ride sharing program is another
groundbreaking milestone in aviation history. The eVTOL aircraft
create a new ecosystem for ridesharing, focusing on safety,
minimizing noise, and energy efficiency,” said Bob W. Whetsell,
director of safety programs with GE Aviation’s Digital Group.
Used by hundreds of operators worldwide, Flight Data Monitoring
is GE Aviation’s premier service for helping operators understand
and improve safety. GE’s patented analytics software fuses
meteorological information, navigation data, and terrain mapping to
identify safety events and measurements on thousands of flights
every day.
About GE Aviation
GE Aviation, an operating unit of GE (NYSE: GE), is a
world-leading provider of jet and turboprop engines, components,
avionics, electrical power systems, digital solutions and
integrated systems for commercial, military, business and general
aviation aircraft. Announced earlier this year, the digital
software as a service business within GE Aviation plans to become a
part of GE Digital in Q4 2020. For more information, visit
http://www.ge.com/aviation. Follow GE Aviation on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/GEAviation and YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/user/GEAviation.
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