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 ASI's Flyways AI platform into its upcoming eVTOL air taxi demonstrations.
The Flyways AI platform uses predictive 4D models and over 100 data links to optimize air traffic management, foreseeing congestion and recommending flow strategies up to eight hours in advance.
This collaboration aims to prepare U.S. airspace for scaled electric flight, studying how automated, software-defined approaches can safely integrate eVTOLs and support future autonomous flight operations.
Joby is actively investing in autonomous flight technology for its aircraft and exploring AI for other operational aspects like vertiport management, in addition to this air traffic management partnership.

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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.