Reston, VA, February 16^th, 2021. Varon Vehicles and TruWeather Solutions jointly announced today a strategic collaboration to integrate weather and micro-weather capabilities into Varon Vehicle’s Traffic Management Systems (TMS). Varon Vehicles is designing an inter-connected network of vertiports with on-ramp and off-ramps connected to virtual lanes over the low altitude city skies. Varon Vehicles is leading a consortium of global stakeholders and will fly next generation Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft for urban use to deliver transportation services between their vertiports and integrate with other transportation modes. Varon Vehicles’ blueprint for dynamic Infrastructure Networks is a new form of mobility infrastructure with the potential for demonstrating how to move people and cargo in congested urban environments.

“There are many components involved in our Infrastructure Networks and weather management will play a key role in our operation”, says Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder. “Being able to confidently anticipate and predict micro-weather is crucial for safety and efficiency of our operations. We’re relying on the best systems providers with proven technologies to implement our systems, and we’re really glad to be collaborating with TruWeather Solutions as we develop our novel transportation services.”

“Smart weather infrastructure and micro-weather hazard detect and avoid services for a smooth-running air-based transport system is critical to increase aircraft revenue generation and for clients to feel comfortable knowing that their ride will show up when needed” says Don Berchoff, CEO of TruWeather Solutions. “Building weather resiliency into the transportation system must start in the planning phase to ensure weather resilient placement of vertiports and virtual highways to account for building induced wake turbulence and building induced wind funneling effects. Varon Vehicles is a thought-leader in Urban Air Mobility and understands the importance of urban micro-weather considerations. We are thrilled about our collaboration with Varon Vehicles to demonstrate smart weather infrastructure placement and urban weather strategy as a force-multiplier in executing a predictable and well-functioning TMS.”

TruWeather is leader in Advanced Air Mobility micro-weather solutions and decision systems today.  Their TruFlite V360 micro-weather data and analytic software-as-a-service intelligent weather platform focuses on addressing weather pain points. TruWeather has a government grant to present a framework for optimizing weather sensor placement in urban environments to produce an “MRI” of wind hazards that will impact weather sensitive Advanced Air Mobility operations. TruWeather is focused on identifying and communicating dynamic changes in wind that impacts operational decisions for airspace managers and operators, and the air worthiness of airframes themselves. This future service is designed to keep VTOL air vehicles flying safely while optimizing operations and client satisfaction.

Varon Vehicles Corporation is a disruptive mobility infrastructure company. It is implementing Urban Air Mobility with the next generation of electric aviation (eVTOLs) between their Vertiports to provide radically new transportation services. www.varonvehicles.com. Contact Felipe Varon, varon.felipe@varonvehicles.com.

TruWeather Solutions Inc is a leading provider of weather data analytics and innovative weather risk management products with a focus on low level aviation and ground transportation systems.  Founded on over 35 years’ experience across the aviation, logistics and weather industries, and acknowledged as experts in setting standards for the safe operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, the company provides the highest quality insights alongside excellent technical and operational forecasting support services. TruWeather’s customized translation of real-time and predictive weather data into discreet workflow decision insights sharpens resource scheduling, planning and mission execution resulting in safer, more productive operations and business success. www.truweathersolutions.com.  Contact:  Lisa Tinnesz, lisa.tinnesz@truweathersolutions.com.

Varon Vehicles Corporation and its Founder & CEO, Felipe Varon, have been featured in eVTOL Insights’ Power Book 2021, “Recognizing Excellence and Achievement in the Electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft Industry”. It is a great honor for Felipe Varon and the entire Varon Vehicles team to be considered as part of this compendium alongside such reputable leaders and companies from all over the world. It inspires the team to continue working on the hard but exciting development of the nascent Urban Air Mobility industry.

Power Book 2021 is a thorough and interesting read which is recommended for all those who wish to be up to date on the current status of the key players shaping Urban Air Mobility globally. You can download a free copy of Power Book 2021 using the link below.

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Varon Vehicles Corporation launched its first company summit Skyscraper 2020 on November 20th of 2020. It brings together UAM stakeholders from around the world. This Varon Vehicles ecosystem of partner and collaborating companies, universities, entities, governments, civil aviation authorities, investors and individuals present their developments and ideas in Skyscraper 2020 with a focus on their collaboration with Varon Vehicles. The summit showcases ample content about implementation efforts in Latin America with a special place for the case in Colombia where the company has decided to implement its first systems, making it an attractive testbed for its partner companies.

As a result from Skyscraper 2020, many conversations are being currently held and design work has been propelled forward, as Varon Vehicles solidifies partnerships and collaboration entering 2021. Work is currently underway with its partner companies and with the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority to further develop the details of its Infrastructure Networks and implementation details. The company has very interesting plans in its roadmap ahead.

You can attend Skyscraper 2020 and all its content at any time in the Skyscraper section or using the link below.

Varon Vehicles Corporation launched today its first company summit Skyscraper 2020. It brings together UAM stakeholders from around the world to discuss the implementation of Urban Air Mobility in Latin America. This Varon Vehicles ecosystem of partner and collaborating companies, universities, entities, governments, civil aviation authorities, investors and individuals present their developments and ideas with a focus on their collaboration with Varon Vehicles. The summit showcases ample content about implementation efforts in Latin America with a special place for the case in Colombia where the company has decided to implement its first systems, making it an attractive testbed for its partner companies.

 

Skyscraper 2020 will be available from today onwards, permanently. There is no need to register, it has no cost and can be accessed by all people without a schedule, permanently. The company invites all interested people to engage with questions to all presenters, this feature will be available until December 15th 2020.

 

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Varon Vehicles Corporation: Urban Air Mobility

The nascent Urban Air Mobility industry is T booming. But before it becomes an integral part of our lives, there are quite a few challenges that we must overcome. From regulatory challenges to overwhelming cost barriers, Varon Vehicles is doing a fabulous job at making the technology a reality with their unique approach. With a career spanning across two decades, Felipe Varon, CEO at Varon Vehicles, shares how they are overcoming barriers in the emerging UAM market by bringing together global talents from the aviation and urban air mobility industries for implementation in Latin America

What is Varon Vehicles’ view on Urban Air Mobility (UAM)?

We view UAM as infrastructure – not just meaning our vertiports. It means the network of vertiports connected to each other with a fleet of new generation air vehicles servicing between them and all the subsystems required for the operation.
We see this as infrastructure that allows tackling not only the mobility problem, but also the  city growth problem by providing transportation means without the need to build physical mobility infrastructure.

What is your company focused on?

Varon Vehicles is leading an ecosystem of global urban air mobility stakeholders targeted towards implementing its first transportation system network in Latin America, starting at a chosen location in Colombia

It will probably consist of 2 to 4 vertiports connected to each other via permanently reserved airspace volumes and a fleet of new generation Vertical Take-Off and Landing air vehicles (VTOL) servicing between them, with all the required subsystems for the operation, to offer  freight transportation services at first and eventually passenger transportation in conjunction with Transportation Network Company (TNC) partners.

Despite being a US company, Varon Vehicles Corp has identified several advantages in implementing first in Latin America instead of in the US or Europe, which essentially mean faster implementation and lower costs. This is evermore relevant now with global post COVID budget situations.

While most in the aerospace industry agree that an operable maturity level in urban air mobility in the US will be achieved near the year 2035 given the complexity of the design approach being undertaken, Varon Vehicles is targeting to have its first operating system in about 5 years.

The company has taken a simplistic approach for implementation in Latin America to get UAM operation started sooner, at a radically lower cost and with the exact same levels of safety to allow knowhow acquisition.

Varon Vehicles Corporation is proud to announce that it has become a signatory of the Shared Mobility Principles. It is the company’s belief that the Shared Mobility Principles are an important guide as it develops its Urban Air Mobility transportation services and their integration with other modes of transportation.

Produced in 2018 by a working group of NGOs, the Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities are a guiding framework for urban decision makers and stakeholders to navigate the shifting transportation landscape while prioritizing the best outcomes for all.

Urban Air Mobility is a complex nascent industry. Many companies and government agencies from around the world are hard at work to create this promising future mode of transportation. But it not only requires interdisciplinary work in engineering, aeronautics, architecture, policies, urban planning and mobility, it also requires vision, leadership and urban centric thinking. Urban Air Mobility will be viable not only if its economics are right, but also if the appropriate public acceptance is achieved and if it solves people’s and city problems.

Varon Vehicles believes people should have more time for what is valuable in life, that people should be able to move faster, safer and greener. The company believes that the highest technology and the best of innovative minds can serve the purpose of healing people’s deteriorated quality of life. This deterioration arises in great proportion from urban mobility issues. By creating a disruptive way of transportation, the company aims to tackle this in a radically innovative way in a manner that is highly replicable globally. The guidance of the Shared Mobility Principles serves as a solid basis to point the company’s development in the right direction from early stages, so the company is proud to become a signatory along with so many other reputable global mobility stakeholders.

In recent times, due to the ever-growing vehicle population, commuting has become very difficult. McKinsey had reported that more than two workweeks are spent in traffic by a typical Los Angeles commuter. A new hope has risen to end our commuting woes in the form of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). It is a term that is used in the aviation industry and it refers to on-demand transportation in a new generation of vertical take-off and landing aircraft, also known as VTOLs. Traffic is getting beyond worse, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to go from one place to another. UAM leverages the sky to better link people to cities and regions, giving them more possibilities to connect.