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Related Cos. to develop skyports for Uber Air
Investors - JUNE 11, 2019

Related Cos. to develop skyports for Uber Air

by Andrea Zander

Uber Elevate has selected Related Cos. as its preferred development partner supporting its Uber Air network in the United States.

As part of this partnership, Uber and Related have collaborated on a vision for a future skyport at Related’s 240-acre Santa Clara, Calif., development to illustrate the benefits aerial ridesharing could provide for the Bay Area and other cities in the future. Since 2016, Uber Elevate has been working with government and industry stakeholders to create the world’s first aerial rideshare network with safe, quiet and electric Uber Air vehicles that would transport tens of thousands of people across cities for the same price as an UberX trip of the same distance. Related is one of the country's largest real estate developers, known for its city defining, mixed-use developments and innovative residential and commercial offerings in many of Uber’s biggest cities.

The skyport at Related’s Santa Clara development, designed by Foster + Partners, is envisioned along a major traffic artery. The flight deck is designed to charge up to five eVTOL aircrafts at a single time. It also has a dedicated landing area and dedicated take-off area, with enough separation to allow for simultaneous flight operations.

Uber’s first U.S. Uber Air cities will be Dallas-Fort Worth/Frisco, Texas and Los Angeles, with a goal of holding flight demonstrations in 2020 and making aerial ridesharing commercially available to riders in 2023. The skyport rendering with Related provides a forward looking vision for when aerial ridesharing is more widely available in cities across the United States. Locating a skyport in Santa Clara will be preceded by the necessary governmental collaboration, approvals and processes with an operational opening occurring in the future.

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