“This collection of Skyport Mobility Hub concepts establish a practical, sustainable vision for the infrastructure needed in the communities we plan to serve,” he said. Skyports will be where Uber Elevate passengers will load and unload for intra-metro flights aboard its futuristic air taxis, so Uber invited innovative architectural firms to imagine how these connected hubs could be integrated into the urban landscapes of the three launch metros.Īrchitects have a responsibility to reimagine the world in ways that don’t exist yet, Uber Elevate Head of Design John Badalamenti said in a statement. “The market for air taxis is expected to grow from $3.4 billion in 2025 to $17.7 billion by 2040, according to Deloitte,” writes Joann Muller for Axios, “and for Uber, which lost $1 billion in its first quarter as a publicly held company, that opportunity is hard to pass up.” It’s a market that’s anticipated to be lucrative. READ NEXT High-Flying Connectivity: AT&T Partners With Uber to Put 5G in Air Taxis This week, Hillwood announced its plans to create a Mobility Innovation Zone at its AllianceTexas development, which could be a future place to develop, test, and refine Uber’s advanced mobility technologies. In total, eight firms unveiled 16 new concepts for the 2023 Uber Skyport Mobility Hub on Tuesday at the summit.ĭallas-based Hillwood-an early Uber Elevate partner-also attended the summit, reported. Their designs were revealed this week at the third annual Uber Elevate Summit in Washington, D.C. The Dallas-based firms are Beck Group, BOKA Powell, Corgan, Gensler, and Humphreys & Partners. Now, five Dallas architectural firms are among a group of designers unveiling their visions for “skyports”-the future location where the flying Ubers would lift-off.
The goal is that by 2023, air taxis will be transporting riders through commercial flight operations in three launch markets: Dallas-Fort Worth, L.A., and Melbourne, Australia.
Uber Elevate, the rideshare giant’s air mobility arm, announced its plans in 2017 to launch an aerial shared transportation service called Uber Air.
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