DRONE PARKING DAWNS : VERTIPORT 2023

 

Air Taxis also known as flying cars or EVTOL [electric,vertical take-off and landing] aircraft are essentially multirotor drones that are large enough to carry people.

Several firms around the world hope such vehicles will win regulatory approval in 2023 as a fast, sustainable form of urban transport.

But EVTOLS can't take off and land just anywhere.

Instead, they will need designated places to do so - so called vertoports - that are half-airport, half-subway station, and that allows EVTOLS to be integrated with existing transport networks, such as road and rail.

All of this poses a challenge to architects and urban designers, who are already coming up with some distinctive designs. Vertiports will be needed if EVTOLS are to get off the ground.

The World Students Society thanks 'The Economist'.