Planning to Watch an Electric Air Taxi Flight? So Are ‘4D’ Models

Joby Aviation partners with ASI for live operational demonstrations later this year.

Jack Daleo

Tuesday, April 07, 2026 at 05:05 PM ET

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Travis Tingle

A predictive air traffic management platform will support live operational demonstrations of Joby Aviation’s electric air taxi. [Credit: Joby Aviation]

Key Takeaways:

Joby Aviation has partnered with Air Space Intelligence (ASI) to integrate its AI-powered Flyways platform for managing future eVTOL air taxi operations.
ASI's Flyways AI platform optimizes air traffic by predicting airspace conditions 8+ hours in advance using extensive data to create "4D twins" of the National Airspace System, minimizing delays and congestion.
The collaboration aims to efficiently integrate eVTOLs into complex airspace under existing regulations and explore how automated systems can enable increasingly autonomous flight for these aircraft.
This initiative is part of Joby's broader preparations for scaled operations, including planned passenger flights this summer, and its investment in AI and autonomy for vertiports and aircraft.

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Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi prototypes are only just beginning to fly in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). But the next time you see one artificial intelligence and 4D models could be deciding when and where they fly.

Joby Aviation, one of the leading U.S. developers of eVTOL aircraft, on Tuesday announced a partnership with Air Space Intelligence (ASI) that will see the latter’s Flyways AI platform power live operational demonstrations of its air taxi, planned for later this year.