The Utah Department of Transportation is pushing Utah into the future by taking steps to integrate vertiports around the state.
Paul Damron, the advanced air mobility manager for UDOT said a vertiport is like a heliport, but for the new era of transportation that’s coming; air taxis.
According to Damron, vertiports will essentially function like an Uber or a Lyft. Users will use an app where they can put in their travel plans and pay.
“The first vertiport will be a location that electric vertical landing and takeoff aerial vehicles can land within communities and get us closer to our destinations and get us off of the congested roads,” Darmon told Dave and Dujanovic.
Paul Damron, the advanced air mobility manager for UDOT said a vertiport is like a heliport, but for the new era of transportation that’s coming; air taxis.
According to Damron, vertiports will essentially function like an Uber or a Lyft. Users will use an app where they can put in their travel plans and pay.
“The first vertiport will be a location that electric vertical landing and takeoff aerial vehicles can land within communities and get us closer to our destinations and get us off of the congested roads,” Darmon told Dave and Dujanovic.
