Air Traffic Control systems handle the take-off and landing of thousands of aircraft every day. But if a new-wave of air-taxis were to all suddenly take to the skies in their thousands, the systems and protocols used to safely manage our skies might not cope.

So now, air traffic management groups like the FAA, NASA and NATS in the U.K. are all working to develop new ways to integrate eVTOL aircraft into our skies without disrupting today’s air traffic.

0:00 Air Traffic Control isn’t designed to handle hundreds of air taxis
0:44 How eVTOL companies envisage the future
1:46 How airspace currently works
3:42 The airspace of the future: Roads in the sky, and an info-centric network
5:27 It’s not just air taxis – Hydrogen planes, rocket launches and drone deliveries are coming too

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