On July 17, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive to establish the Advanced Air Mobility Initiative, a program that would further the state of Michigan’s advanced aerial vehicular capabilities and support infrastructure expansion in the aviation sector. The Advanced Aerial Mobility Activation Fund, which will receive a second round of funding through the directive, funds projects for drones, helicopters and other electric aerial vehicles.
The executive directive also allocated more than $4.1 million to four new projects supporting these initiatives, including CVS Health, Traverse Connect, Jack Demmer Automotive Group and M-Air.
M-Air will become a new 40-mile air mobility corridor, or dedicated transportation route, that will connect University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus to Michigan Central in Detroit. M-Air will be a part of M-City, a public-private partnership within the University’s Transportation Research Institute that advances innovation in transportation and aerial mobility…