"The skyway in Seoul opens up"...15 minutes from Pangyo to Gwanghwamun

[Anchor]
Starting next year, futuristic air mobility is expected to be seen flying across the sky in Seoul.

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon announced the vision of Mega City Seoul that goes beyond the existing means of transportation, which was limited to the ground and underground, to realize a "three-dimensional transportation" system.

[Reporter]
A woman book a city flight from Gimpo Airport to Jamsil on her smartphone.

UAM, an urban transportation vehicle that flies over Seoul with passengers who have completed boarding procedures, shortly afterwards.

The control center monitors the risk of collision with other flying objects such as drone delivery, checks the route, and arrives at the destination Jamsil stop.

This is the future transportation that the Seoul Metropolitan Government is drawing.

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon unveiled the blueprint of "mega city" Seoul, which transcends the spatial limits between cities, saying that he will start demonstrating UAM starting from Yeouido next year with the goal of commercialization in 2030.

[Sehun Oh / Seoul Mayor: Next year, we will verify the safety of UAM operations such as infrastructure, control, and noise through the demonstration project of the K-UAM Grand Challenge]

First of all, the city plans to build major facilities that allow fast charging, equipment repair, and inspection in Yeouido, Suseo, Jamsil, and Gimpo Airport by 2030 for UAM pilot operations.

In addition, about 30 "Bertyports," the concept of UAM stops, will be created throughout Seoul to connect them to public transportation such as buses and subways freely.

The route will be expanded step by step from the demonstration stage next year to the maturity period after 2035.

Once the Seoul-type UAM system is completed, it is expected to be able to travel 25km from Pangyo to Gwanghwamun in about 15 minutes, which takes about an hour by car.

[Oh Se-hoon / Seoul Mayor: We want to transform Seoul into a world-class three-dimensional transportation city] We will do our best to provide citizens with safe and eco-friendly freedom of movement by pioneering the sky of Seoul as a new level of transportation network.The city of

predicted that the size of the UAM industry will increase 500 times over the next 20 years, and that the number of UAM users in Seoul will reach 4.7 million by 2040.

I'm YTN's Cha Jung Yoon.

Reporter for shooting
: Jung Hee-in
Video editing: Choi Yeon-ho
Graphic: Kim Jinho