A survey project for the social implementation of the "flying car" to be unveiled at the Osaka Kansai Expo scheduled to be held in Yumeshima, Osaka City in 2025 was adopted by the Cabinet Office following the previous year. Visiting professor Takakage Arai of the graduate school and others will be in charge of conducting the survey and providing advisory services.
According to Osaka Public University, in addition to Professor Arai, Professor Toru Katayama, Professor Nozomu Ogiso, Professor Toshiaki Tsujii, and Associate Professor Nagahiro Yoshida from the Graduate School of Engineering will be in charge of conducting the survey and providing advisory services.The business is DX Consulting's Gloving, drone development Sky Drive, Kintetsu Group Holdings, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, Nippon Koei, Mitsubishi Electric, Obayashi Corporation, Kansai Electric Power, Dai Nippon Printing, and Osaka Public University with the cooperation of Osaka Prefecture City. to proceed.
Investigate candidate take-off and landing port sites in the Osaka Bay Area that will operate in conjunction with the Expo site during the Osaka-Kansai Expo, and examine promising take-off and landing port candidate sites in other areas for commercial use after the Expo, and establish ports. We will proceed with verification of institutional issues that will be problematic in the future.
There is no clear definition of a flying car, but the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry officially calls it an "electric vertical take-off and landing type unpiloted aircraft."There are those that are based on drones that can be boarded by people, and those that are based on electric vehicles and equipped with propellers and automatic control devices.Its development is being accelerated around the world, and it is expected to be one of the highlights of the Osaka/Kansai Expo.
