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TRANSPORT-Transport 2025

ZELMA - Zero Emission Last Miles Aviation

Tildelt: kr 0,35 mill.

The ZELMA project aims to establish itself as a consortium to support the efforts between long haul shipments and Last Mile Distributions (LMD). With the use of ESG positive (Environmental, Social, Governance) MALE-platforms (Medium Altitude Long Endurance), we envision to fulfil the needs in this gap. Through RPA (Remotely Piloted Aircrafts) with a payload capacity of 100 kgs+ and endurance up to 10 hours, ZELMA intends to investigate the business area of “kilomiles” between unmanned logistics hubs. ZELMA will enable a swifter market introduction for last mile distributers by utilizing the new U-Space methodology of EASA, the European Aviation Safety Agency. By combining our expertise with established experts in logistics, ESG fuels, RPA manufacturers and legislators, the ZELMA initiative can pave the way for a virtual road network in the skies. The reasoning behind our ZELMA strategy is to ensure that last mile hubs stay connected. Today, the initiatives for last mile drone hubs rely solely on road access or similar infrastructure to enable a steady flow of goods from hub to final delivery point. By enabling connectivity between the drone hubs, with payloads exceeding 100kgs and an endurance over 500km, the hubs can be fed via air delivery – this in turn ensures a significant reduction in ground traffic surrounding the drone hubs. “Transport systems include an extensive series of physical and organisational elements and are being characterised by an overall intrinsic complexity. These elements can be influencing each other directly and/or indirectly, linearly or nonlinearly, having also potential feedback cycles.” (Cascetta, E. 2001.?Transportation Systems Engineering: theory and methods.) The aim of the ZELMA project is to solve one of the key issues of drone-based last mile logistics, by connecting other traditional logistics means with the drone hubs, with the use of MALE drones, serving seaports, airports, rail and highway transport hubs.

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TRANSPORT-Transport 2025