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,

• Record URL:
  • https://static.tti.tamu.edu/tti.tamu.edu/documents/PRC-2018-3.pdf
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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/34909
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135
• Authors:
  • Polunsky, Steven
• Publication Date: 2018-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 6p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Demand responsive transportation; Heliports; Transportation policy; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01663381
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 21 2018 10:12AM