It’s a market that’s anticipated to be lucrative. READ NEXT High-Flying Connectivity: AT&T Partners With Uber to Put 5G in Air Taxis This week, Hillwood announced its plans to create a Mobility Innovation Zone at its AllianceTexas development, which could be a future place to develop, test, and refine Uber’s advanced mobility technologies. In total, eight firms unveiled 16 new concepts for the 2023 Uber Skyport Mobility Hub on Tuesday at the summit.ĭallas-based Hillwood-an early Uber Elevate partner-also attended the summit, reported. Their designs were revealed this week at the third annual Uber Elevate Summit in Washington, D.C. The Dallas-based firms are Beck Group, BOKA Powell, Corgan, Gensler, and Humphreys & Partners. Now, five Dallas architectural firms are among a group of designers unveiling their visions for “skyports”-the future location where the flying Ubers would lift-off. The goal is that by 2023, air taxis will be transporting riders through commercial flight operations in three launch markets: Dallas-Fort Worth, L.A., and Melbourne, Australia. Uber Elevate, the rideshare giant’s air mobility arm, announced its plans in 2017 to launch an aerial shared transportation service called Uber Air.

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