Airbus Reveals Urban Air-Transport Projects

AirbusGroup has provided a glimpse into its research on air taxis as an answer to growing surface gridlock in the world's largest cities.

This includes prototyping an autonomous air vehicle for individual passenger and cargo transport, and studies of a multi-passenger CityAirbus concept. The single-passenger vehicle is being developed by A3, Airbus's Silicon Valley outpost, under Project Vahana, launched in February. A team of internal and external developers have agreed on a vehicle design, and the prototype is scheduled to fly at the end of 2017, according to Airbus Group magazine Forum.

The CityAirbus concept ... full text http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/airbus-reveals-urban-air-transport-projects

In Airbus' web: http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/corporate-magazine/Forum-88/My-Kind-Of-Flyover.html