On-Demand Aviation Services for Mobility, Logistics, Emergency Response, and Humanitarian Use Cases (2024)
Chapter: Evening Remarks
Evening Remarks
Speaker
Peter Irvine, Office of Aviation Analysis, U.S. Department of Transportation
During the evening session, Peter Irvine, Deputy Director of the Office of Aviation Analysis and Executive Lead for Aviation Policy at the U.S. DOT, described the office’s role in aviation economics, analyzing the state of the aviation industry, and forecasting emerging trends.
Irvine highlighted the transformative potential of innovation in the transportation sector, emphasizing how it can enable new business models, services, and supply chains. He added that AAM could be an industry gateway to decarbonization and sustainable aviation.
Irvine touched upon the recently ratified Advanced Air Mobility Coordination and Leadership Act (2022), which led to the establishment of the AAM Interagency Working Group. The speaker also discussed a recent Request for Information and the working group’s efforts to gather insights from the diverse ecosystem of AAM stakeholders and produce a report to Congress.
Attendees inquired about the role of local and regional governments in this emerging AAM ecosystem. Irvine expressed the working group’s eagerness to partner with local and regional governments, although they had yet to fully address this challenge. He explained that the working group was actively planning engagements with state, regional, and local governments.
Irvine concluded by stressing the working group’s commitment to ensuring that their outreach and view of the industry are comprehensive and inclusive, encompassing all stakeholders, diverse use cases, and all levels of government. Irvine added that there is growing interest within the U.S. DOT in supporting public good use cases such as aeromedical and emergency response applications.
