“The agreement between Enac and the Lombardy Region is a fundamental agreement for the construction of the mobility of the future in our territory and to accompany the efforts of companies and better direct investments in the development of Urban Air Mobility”, thus the President of the Lombardia Aerospace Cluster, Angelo Vallerani , comments on the Memorandum of Understanding to carry out common activities in favor of the development of new concepts of advanced and sustainable air mobility (Advanced Air Mobility), signed today by the National Civil Aviation Authority and the Lombardy Region.
“ In the Lombard aerospace industry – explains Angelo Vallerani – there is the availability of all the technology and skills necessary to create new systems capable, through vertical flight, of decongesting the road arteries through more sustainable mobility with use of helicopters, tiltrotors, drones and unmanned vehicles. The commitment of the production system on this front is maximum. But technological development is not enough to meet the challenge. It is equally necessary to create new infrastructures (based on vertiports) and to implement legislation with new rules and routes. Hence the importance of the contents and objectives put in black and white by the agreement reached by Enac and the Lombardy Region ”.
Among the objectives of the Lombardia Aerospace Cluster, also in view of the next Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina in 2026, adds the President of the Lombardia Aerospace Cluster, “there is precisely that of achieving, together with collaboration with the institutions:
Below and attached, the press release from the Lombardy Region and Enac with the contents of the Memorandum of Understanding:
The objective is to improve the quality of life of citizens with the introduction of innovative services that exploit the ‘third dimension’, the air one. Advanced Air Mobility is, in fact, a technological and operational concept, under development, to allow the transport of people, goods, supplies, medical supplies and to enable new types of services, through the use of electric aircraft, which are particularly innovative and sustainable, mainly with vertical take-off and landing (called VTOL – vertical take off landing), routed in air corridors dedicated to their movements, optimizing travel times, reducing consumption and emissions.
The Protocol is part of the path started by ENAC with the Regions and metropolitan cities to collect their needs and contribute to developing an ecosystem for the gradual implementation of intelligent air mobility, which is at the service of the citizen and the community.
The agreement between ENAC and the Lombardy Region regulates the methods of collaboration between the parties for the mutual exchange of information, for the definition of the regulatory context, for the organization of joint initiatives and services in the field of urban and advanced air mobility that are efficient, safe, sustainable and interoperable with airport and public transport infrastructures in the Lombardy region.
“A first and decisive step forward towards an action which in the future can be of significant importance – says the councilor for Infrastructure, Transport and Sustainable Mobility of the Lombardy Region, Claudia Maria Terzi – especially if applied to a central and important territory such as Lombardy, the economic-productive locomotive of the entire country. Advanced Air Mobility could become, in the future, an innovative element for the transport of goods and people”.
“The introduction of the ‘third dimension’ in urban mobility – comments the director general of ENAC, Alessio Quaranta – is bringing a transformation that will influence the strategic thinking of the territories: it will offer, in the near future, an alternative to land movement by promoting the technological innovation and environmental sustainability. The challenge, however, must be faced in a united manner, as a country system, involving institutions, the private sector, the world of research and industrial excellence. It is a duty of all of us to give the new generations a broad vision of mobility, combining technology and the environment in a constructive relationship.”
Satisfaction was also expressed by the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Lombardy Region, responsible for coordinating relations with the International Delegations, Alan Rizzi: “From the beginning – he explains – I understood the importance of this initiative and with President Fontana we decided to carry it forward with conviction. Looking specifically at our regional territory, I think about how useful it would be to connect two Lombard cities tens of kilometers apart, significantly reducing travel times. It is enough to think of the 2026 Winter Olympics to understand how this project is successful and important and this is why the Lombardy Region is taking action to make it operational”.
And the undersecretary with responsibility for Sport, Major Events and the Olympics, Antonio Rossi, focuses his attention precisely on Milan-Cortina 2026: “Everything that is innovative and serves to ‘save time’ – underlines the multiple Olympic champion – goes in the direction of the organization of the 2026 Winter Games. Being able to achieve this objective for the most important sporting event in Italy between now and the next few years would be truly strategic to be even more competitive and efficient before and during the Olympics. A project with enormous potential that would give concrete support to our programming.”
“The agreement between Enac and the Lombardy Region – concludes the president of the Lombardy Aerospace Cluster, Angelo Vallerani – is a fundamental agreement to accompany the efforts of companies and better direct investments towards the construction of more sustainable mobility. In the Lombardy aerospace industry there are all the technologies and skills necessary to create an Advanced Air Mobility based on the strengthening of the use of helicopters on short routes, of the covertiplane for medium-long routes, of eVTOLs and drones for urban transport services. last mile. Know-how, however, is not enough. We need infrastructure and new flight rules. Hence the importance of this agreement.”
