“The space where these aircraft will operate is sandwiched between low-flying drones and the traditional airspace high above,” Savvy Verma, lead for airspace procedures at NASA’s Air Traffic Management eXploration (ATM-X) project, said in January. This is partly due to the technical challenge of developing flying cars with useful ranges (we still need lighter batteries with greater capacity), but also the need to ensure passengers, and people on the ground, are safe when many eVTOLs are in flight at one time. Safety first: But deployment of flying cars is notoriously slow moving. The hope is that the flying cars will be ready in time to prevent an increase in traffic congestion that’s expected to follow the flow of more people into urban areas (over the next 30 years, the share of people who live in cities is expected to increase from 50% to 70%).Ĭongestion has a negative impact on local economies, residents’ quality of life, and the environment (if the vehicles being used are powered by fossil fuels, which they overwhelmingly are), so less of it would have a myriad of benefits. “Aircraft flying in these layers will interact, and that’s where things get tricky.” Savvy Verma “When cities change, as populations move, the routes can move in a way that trains and rail, or highway infrastructure, cannot,” Harrison Wolf, the World Economic Forum’s Lead for Aerospace and Drones, said in 2020. But he stopped short of saying Ukrainian forces were responsible for the blast.Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.The 12 mile bridge which links it to Russia’s transport network was opened with great fanfare by President Vladimir Putin four years later.It now represents a crucial supply route for Russian forces who have taken control of most of southern Ukraine’s Kherson region.This would require less upfront cost than building the infrastructure needed for more ground transportation - roads, railways, subway lines, etc. And we are very satisfied it has finally started.”A Ukrainian presidential adviser posted a message on Twitter saying the incident was just "the beginning”. But added that everyone had waited for it.“We have waited for the moment when the bridge burns. Although he said traffic was suspended while the damage was being assessed.In Kyiv, the mood was upbeat.No one knows how it happened, this man said. Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian governor of Crimea, said on social media that the road bridge was still intact in one direction. Reuters was not able to confirm the date the video was filmed.It was not yet clear if the blast was a deliberate attack or an accident but the damage to such high-profile infrastructure came at a time when Russia has suffered several battlefield defeats.And it could further cloud the Kremlin's messages of reassurance to the wider Russian public that the conflict is going to plan.The Russian Investigative Committee said the blast occurred in a freight truck, causing fuel tanker wagons to catch fire on a train heading for the peninsula.It added that two sections of the bridge had partially collapsed. Fire and thick smoke were seen on the strategic road-and-rail bridge, which is the only crossing between Crimea and Russia.Video obtained by Reuters showed CCTV footage of the blast. STORY: A blast rocked the Kerch bridge which links Russia and the Crimea peninsula on Saturday (October 8), causing parts of the road to collapse.The bridge is a crucial military supply route for Russian forces in Ukraine.
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