Skyway Technologies and Berg Holdings to establish Northern California vertiports

Ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture and plan­ning com­pa­ny Sky­way Tech­nolo­gies and Berg Hold­ings, a Sausal­i­to-based Bay Area real estate devel­op­er, have announced a strate­gic part­ner­ship to accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of a net­work of urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) ver­ti­ports in the Bay Area and else­where in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia.

Key loca­tions with­in Sky­way and Berg Hold­ings’ ver­ti­port net­work roll­out plan will sup­port eVTOL indus­try devel­op­ment and speedy pas­sen­ger and car­go deliv­ery between Moun­tain View, Marin Coun­ty, Sono­ma Coun­ty, San Jose, and loca­tions along the East Bay I‑680 cor­ri­dor.

The sec­ond stage of devel­op­ment will include oth­er com­ple­men­tary loca­tions in the Bay Area and through­out North­ern Cal­i­for­nia, and is intend­ed to be cer­ti­fied by the FAA and in place to sup­port antic­i­pat­ed cer­ti­fied com­mer­cial eVTOL flight com­ing mid/late 2025.

Each ver­ti­port site is designed to sup­port rel­e­vant UAM uses spe­cif­ic to that loca­tion, to pro­vide required lev­els of ser­vice, to be inte­grat­ed into the exist­ing lega­cy air­space traf­fic, and to be agnos­tic to eVTOL vehi­cles.

“The Bay Area has always been about pio­neer­ing and progress, with hori­zons to be nav­i­gat­ed as well as admired. Berg Hold­ings looks for­ward to assist­ing Sky­way in the pur­suit of com­mon-sense sites and reg­u­la­tions to make local aero mobil­i­ty more equi­table, effi­cient, safe, green, and enjoy­able,” said Car­lo ‘Car­l­i­to’’ Berg, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Berg Hold­ings.

Sky­way and Berg Hold­ings see the hith­er­to slow-paced UAM infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment mar­ket­place as a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to lever­age Berg Hold­ings’ sub­stan­tial real estate port­fo­lio for ide­al UAM ver­ti­port des­ti­na­tions.

Berg views the part­ner­ship with Sky­way and its com­pre­hen­sive ver­ti­port solu­tions as a path to max­imis­ing its mar­ket share, allow­ing Sky­way to deliv­er the nec­es­sary UAM tech­nol­o­gy ser­vices to plan for and oper­ate ver­ti­port facil­i­ties while con­stant­ly analysing oth­er poten­tial loca­tions that ben­e­fit ide­al region­al and com­mu­ni­ty UAM ver­ti­port devel­op­ment strate­gies.

This part­ner­ship will lever­age Sky­way’s exten­sive knowl­edge in ver­ti­port site selec­tion, fur­ther expand­ing the scope of its ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture plan­ning prac­tice.

In April 2022, Tran­soft Solu­tions announced a strate­gic part­ner­ship with Sky­way Tech­nolo­gies to cre­ate advanced ver­ti­port plan­ning meth­ods and mould the tools need­ed for devel­op­ment.

Tran­soft Solu­tions and Sky­way Tech­nolo­gies to cre­ate advanced ver­ti­port plan­ning under new part­ner­ship