{"id":115579,"date":"2026-01-12T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115579\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:55:12","slug":"florida-to-launch-air-taxi-service-by-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115579\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida to launch air taxi service by end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; The Florida Department of Transportation is developing an air taxi service that could be operational by the end of this year, offering an alternative to congested roadways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state\u2019s Advanced Mobility Initiative will focus initially on the I-4 corridor, which the Florida Department of Transportation identifies as the most congested roadway in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Advanced Air Mobility Network will eventually expand statewide, but the first phase covers airports from Tampa through Orlando to Sarasota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/01\/11\/waymo-passenger-jumps-out-self-driving-car-after-it-stops-rail-tracks-near-oncoming-train\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/01\/11\/waymo-passenger-jumps-out-self-driving-car-after-it-stops-rail-tracks-near-oncoming-train\/\">Waymo passenger jumps out of self-driving car after it stops on rail tracks near oncoming train<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida is constructing the first vertiport in the country as part of a test bed that includes two vertiports designed to create a safe and controlled environment for testing advanced air mobility vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019ll be the first in the nation to have anything like that, quite potentially the globe,\u201d a Florida Department of Transportation representative said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The project is expected to be completed by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; The Florida Department of Transportation is developing an air taxi service that could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58371,58374,28,58370,30,29,58372,58373],"class_list":["post-115579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-advanced-air-mobility","tag-fdot-flying-cars","tag-florida","tag-florida-air-taxi","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-i-4-corridor-transportation","tag-vertiport-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}