LAZ Parking and Skyports announce plans to develop and implement vertiports for eVTOL aircraft in Los Angeles

Sky­ports and LAZ Park­ing, one of the largest park­ing com­pa­nies in the Unit­ed States, have announced a part­ner­ship agree­ment to devel­op and deploy ver­ti­ports for elec­tric air taxis in Los Ange­les.

Through the part­ner­ship, Sky­ports and LAZ will devel­op ver­ti­ports sup­port­ing pas­sen­ger air taxi oper­a­tions at loca­tions across the region.

LAZ is active­ly deploy­ing new tech­nolo­gies that will trans­form tra­di­tion­al park­ing loca­tions into mul­ti-modal trans­porta­tion hubs, con­nect­ing peo­ple to places more effi­cient­ly and sus­tain­ably.

While Sky­ports is lead­ing the way in advanced air mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture and will inte­grate its oper­a­tional know-how, design exper­tise, and part­ner­ships with world-class vehi­cle man­u­fac­tur­ers and oper­a­tors to build a net­work of ver­ti­ports across Los Ange­les. The city is one of the world’s most con­gest­ed in terms of traf­fic.

Addi­son Fer­rell, Head of Amer­i­c­as for Sky­ports, said: “We’re excit­ed to be work­ing with LAZ Park­ing to deploy take-off and land­ing sites for elec­tric air taxis, first in Los Ange­les, fol­lowed by the rest of the U.S. “Our part­ner­ship with LAZ enables us to lever­age their exten­sive port­fo­lio of facil­i­ties for ver­ti­port devel­op­ment, cre­at­ing val­ue for LAZ cus­tomers, part­ners, and com­mu­ni­ties.

“LAZ is an ide­al part­ner for Sky­ports because it has oper­at­ed in the area for many years, and with that comes strong part­ner­ships and a deep under­stand­ing of the mobil­i­ty land­scape.”

The ver­ti­ports will enable qui­et, effi­cient, zero-car­bon emis­sion air taxi pas­sen­ger ser­vices that pro­vide a new, green and clean trans­porta­tion alter­na­tive to res­i­dents and vis­i­tors.

Work­ing close­ly with reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies and in con­sul­ta­tion with local stake­hold­ers, Sky­ports adheres to design and oper­a­tional prin­ci­ples that pri­ori­tise safe­ty, con­nec­tiv­i­ty and acces­si­bil­i­ty, and reflect the needs of the com­mu­ni­ties it serves.

LAZ is a rec­og­nized pio­neer in the park­ing indus­try for the inte­gra­tion of tech­nol­o­gy into park­ing oper­a­tions and for a range of inno­v­a­tive IT solu­tions, such as remote mon­i­tor­ing, eCom­merce ser­vices, and Prox­im­i­ty On-Demand Ser­vices, or PODS.

Alan Lazows­ki, Chair­man and CEO of LAZ Park­ing, added: “This part­ner­ship with Sky­ports is both an acknowl­edge­ment of LAZ’s lead­er­ship in the area of tech­nol­o­gy and a recog­ni­tion of our excel­lence in both tra­di­tion­al and tech-enabled park­ing and last-mile mobil­i­ty solu­tions.

“We are hon­oured and excit­ed to be part­ner­ing on the imple­men­ta­tion of this cut­ting edge ser­vice with Sky­ports, a com­pa­ny as com­mit­ted to inno­va­tion, sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and cus­tomer ser­vice as we are at LAZ.”

In addi­tion to Sky­ports work­ing in LA, Archer announced ear­li­er this year that it will work with REEF, the largest oper­a­tor of mobil­i­ty and logis­tics hubs in the USA, to devel­op plans for urban take­off and land­ing sites for its eVTOL air­craft in some of the country’s most dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed cities, which includes Archer’s launch mar­kets in Mia­mi and Los Ange­les.

Addi­tion­al­ly, Volo­copter is work­ing with Urban Move­ment Labs (UML) to explore the appli­ca­tion of its urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) solu­tions in the Los Ange­les region.

As part of Volocopter’s US mar­ket cam­paign, the com­pa­ny attend­ed CoMo­tion LA last week for the pub­lic to learn more about this new mode of urban trans­porta­tion.