ARCH Urban Air Mobility
Global Challenge
for Trendsetting Cities
Open call to find UAM trendsetting cities and host a VTOL Flight Simulation hub.
Offer your citizens an opportunity
to explore how flying in the future will look like – today.
Apply to the ARCH Challenge for a chance to host a UAM Flight Simulation hub with a simulation of your city!
We are looking for cities to partner with, host a UAM Flight Simulation hub, and establish a regional UAM CityLab (Ecosystem) for the benefit of mobility industry, the city, and society.
Selection criteria
Applicant cities will be accessed according to the following criteria which correlates to the questions in the application. Decisions will be made holistically by the Jury.
Criterion 1: How ready is your city for Urban Air Mobility era?
Criterion 2: Do you have the dedicated team and space to establish the UAM Flight Simulation hub?
Criterion 3: Have you already or are you willing to establish an UAM CityLab in your city/region?
Criterion 4: Your capacity to partner with and perform pilots/POCs to make UAM better for citizens.
Preparing cities for Urban Air Mobility era.
Become the first city with Urban Air Mobility hub.
Why your city should apply?
If your city is selected among three Challenge winners, you will:
Become the first city in the world with Urban Air Mobility Hub
Offer your city seamless, connected, integrated multimodality in your sustainable environments. Enable your citizens and experts a first hand experience of the future of flying within the city with UAM Flight Simulation hub, a
Get the opportunity to shape the future
Get the opportunity to partner, co-desing and shape the future of Urban Air Mobility, both regionally and worldwide.
Eligibility
UAM Flight Simulation hub
Advanced future-ready and proprietary VTOL simulator for cities, designed and developed to speed up Urban Air Mobility deployment.
Concept design. The exact design of the simulator will be revealed in Q3 2021.
Challenge our jury
Organizers
AV Living Lab
AV Living Lab is a technology startup, focusing on development, pilot testing and implementation of new technologies and business models in their real-life city lab environment. They are also the organizer of the City as a Lab Summit, where leading brands share their new mobility innovation work. The company has successfully implemented multiple (more than 30) proof-of-concepts, including clients such as Google, Daimler, Toyota and Volkswagen Group.
Nervtech
Nervtech is a high-tech R&D company specializing in vehicle simulator technologies in the fields of biometric and cognitive driver evaluation, deep machine learning, and data integration. Nervtech is an advanced tool for driver and operator training in variety of driving scenarios. It is also a tool for automatic evaluation of drivers’ performance and collection of physiological and biometrical big data through a set of external medical grade sensoring equipment, synchronized with the simulation software.
Supported by
City of Ljubljana
The City of Ljubljana is a member of the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Initiative of the European’s Smart Cities Marketplace, also known as the UIC2 (UAM Initiative Cities Community).
How to apply?
Please, read Terms and Conditions and FAQs before applying.
Deadline: 15 April 2021, 23.59 CET
Media and Press kit
European companies AV Living Lab and Nervtech have launched together the ARCH Urban Air Mobility Global Challenge – the opportunity to nominate and become the world’s first UAM CityLab with flight simulation hub for testing and evaluating scenarios in the field of Urban Air Mobility.
Media Inquiries
challenge@arch.aero