Right now, the 'vertiport' is only carrying out demonstrations. But several locations could be fully operational soon.
Backed in part by the UK government, Urban-Air Port will operate Air-One for at least a month in Coventry, providing a blueprint for the more than 200 “vertiports” it plans to open worldwide over the next five years.
“The opening of Air-One is a momentous moment—the starting gun for a new age of transport, an age of zero-emission, congestion-free travel between and within cities that will make people healthier, happier and more connected than ever before,” Ricky Sandhu, the founder and executive chairman of Urban-Air Port, said in a statement to. “Cars have roads. Trains have rails. Planes have airports. Now, eVTOLs have an Urban-Air Port.
Air-One will encompass a whole host of services, including aircraft command and control, eVTOL charging, cargo loading for unmanned drones and demo flights. Once it has finished its tour of duty in Coventry, it will move to other locations within the UK and internationally so that its demonstrations can be tested in different environments and settings.
Urban-Air Port’s vertiports are built to serve four discrete markets: passenger air taxis, autonomous delivery drones, disaster emergency management and defense operations and logistics. For example, in disaster situations, they can be deployed quickly to allow eVTOLs to assist in the collection and transportation of emergency supplies, equipment and people.
Future Urban-Air Port vertiport sites include Los Angeles, Australia, South Korea, France and Germany, and Sandhu noted that “our order book is not only open but already growing.”
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