“This is all to scale, and this reflects about a 50-60,000 square foot area, and this is a very real application,” Learn said, referring to the image above.

What an early, bare-bones Uber Air facility might look like.

And parking garages generally fit our base level structure and space requirements for the integration of our use.” “Typically, you’re going to see the top level of those garages very much under-utilized, if at all. “Parking garages are existing infrastructure that’s everywhere,” Learn said. Learn admitted these images show the company’s “aspirational existence … where we want to go, not necessarily where we see ourselves starting.” Uber is focused on renovating existing parking garages, as seen in previously revealed mockups created by design firms including Gensler, Pickard Chilton, The Beck Group and many others. “While there may not be any sort of official federal guidance specifically for skyports, vertiports, facilities that are planned for eVTOL use, we are going to look toward what is existing, the FAA Advisory Circular around heliport design guidance, AC150/5390-2C,” Learn said, referencing this document. Uber’s Skyport design strategy is requirements-driven, based on existing heliport regulations provided by the Federal Aviation Administration and the design specifications of its partners’ aircraft, according to a presentation by Brian Learn during a webinar hosted by the Vertical Flight Society. “Location will be dependent on zoning, surrounding airspace and aerial routes, aviation approvals, impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic, parking, energy requirements, firefighting accessibility … there are a whole host of factors that have to be considered.” “Federal, city, state and perhaps county approvals will all be based on regulations yet to come for the most part,” said Chuck Clauser, senior director of architecture at PS&S and head of the company’s UAM task force. With the launch of its Uber Air service planned for 2023 in Melbourne, Los Angeles and Dallas, the company - and others planning to be early investors in ground infrastructure for urban air mobility - faces the challenge of building and designing in an uncertain environment.

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