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Vertiports: Policy implications

In April 2017, the transportation network company (TNC) Uber held a conference called Elevate Summit where it revealed a plan for on-demand urban air transportation. Uber’s plan was already in an advanced state of development, had included a number of industry and government stakeholders in its preparation, and proposed two pilot projects, one in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and one in the Dallas, Texas area. One critical ingredient of these plans is a distributed network of vertiports. This brief examines whether there may be policy implications from the use of vertiports.

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