“We are dealing with improving the existing situation,” he emphasizes, “this is something that has been brewing for many years, a mini-revolution in the framework of which we will take off into the air with people and goods. This thing will solve a lot of transportation problems in the long run,” Regev said in a special panel that dealt with environmentally friendly transportation and infrastructure solutions.
“We need to get to a situation where in 50 years we will reach a sane state on the road, and this whole infrastructure is the beginning. The first step is really transporting cargo, and it’s an ever-increasing amount, which reduces pollution, traffic jams and awkwardness. We work with unmanned aerial vehicles to transport deliveries and blood tests We work with a large logistics company and carry out transports to 11 central hospitals.” He added that they are working with the ministries of health and transportation to also take care of the hospitals in the north, especially against the background of the war.
The former Minister of Environmental Protection, Tamar Zandberg, who currently serves as the head of the National Institute for Climate and Environmental Policy at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, also spoke on the panel. “Investing in infrastructure is a matter for decades to come,” she emphasized in her words at the conference. “The world is undergoing changes, extreme weather is becoming routine. A world of infrastructure and construction that does not know how to adapt to the changing world will lose not only human lives, but also value, financing options and opportunities.
Mittal Lahbi, Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, addressed the issue of the metro in Gush Dan and the situation in the city individually in her remarks at the panel. “We are promoting suitable infrastructure for the tiny personal tools, such as electric bicycles and electric scooters. The pace is a few kilometers each year, we have reached 180 kilometers and there is an expectation of 250 kilometers by the end of the term. We believe that this will reduce mobility by private vehicle. There will be more connection to the store and driving a private car, because each solution comes at the expense of something else. When you give way, you give up a sidewalk.”
Sally Glitzchen, CEO of Yaffe Nof, told the panel about the possibility of using existing infrastructure such as roofs. In the city of Haifa, for example, there are 400 public rooftops, and if a company that transports drones has to land them at some point, not in the middle of the road or in parking lots, then rooftops are a resource that is not being utilized properly and it is possible to take advantage of it. We are trying very hard to cooperate with the developers, we have ownership of certain properties in the city, but we need the approval of the state, there is too much excess regulation.”