As drones become an increasingly common sight in urban airspace, what role do cities play in managing and scaling their operations? In this episode of TalTech’s “Innovation and Governance” podcast, we turn our attention to the skies above our cities \u2013 spaces that are rapidly becoming populated with drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[445,610,265,397,611],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-cities","tag-drones","tag-future","tag-innovation","tag-podcast-en"],"acf":{"postbuilder":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","type":"text","text":"
To discuss the present and future of urban air mobility, we are joined by Renske Martijnse-Hartikka<\/a>, Senior Project Manager for Smart Mobility at Forum Virium Helsinki, and Jaanus M\u00fc\u00fcr<\/a>, a researcher at TalTech's Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance.<\/p>\r\n Together with our guests, we explore key questions such as:<\/p>\r\n\r\n Why are cities engaging with drones?<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t What are the challenges of drone-related developments in urban environments?<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t How is the CITYAM<\/a> project supporting cities in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Germany in governing their airspace?<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t What does the future hold for drones in cities?<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThe podcast is hosted by Peeter Vihma<\/a>, researcher at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OEjY-IJMavs[\/embed]\r\n\r\nYou can also tune in to the podcast on Spotify<\/a>.<\/em>","image":null,"align":""}],"related_authors":[{"author":3917,"position":""}]},"yoast_head":"\n\r\n \t