Concept Rise
Concept Rise is Play&Co's first conceptual project that explores a better future, one in which we all want to live. This project explores the relationship between air and ground, vehicle and terminal, business and the community. Countless rounds of design, debate, and development went into conceptualizing an equitable experience for all passengers and users.
How General Use Airports Can Unlock Our Electric Future
Urban Air Mobility and Advanced Air Mobility have been the subject of much heated debate over the past year. But as the dust settles and manufacturers continue down the arduous, expensive and uncertain product development path; how will they define a viable product-market fit that creates value for businesses, communities and the planet?
Play&Co Creative Group believes existing general use and municipal airports hold the key to launching the eVTOL industry and unlocking our electric future. Here’s how:
Thousands of under-utilized airports with spatial 'reserves' for low-cost, high-speed vertiport development.
There are over 5,000 general use airports in the United States. Densely dispersed across the nation, these airports align with a ‘sweet spot’ for eVTOL capacity and range. Many are under-utilized and buffered by large reserves of flat, fallow land perfect for clean energy infrastructure. Furthermore their proximity to cities, suburban, and rural communities makes them ideal for centralization of that infrastructure. They are uniquely positioned to serve their community with electric air travel, medical transport, and middle & last-mile logistics. With established air traffic control systems in place, these airports are the ideal platform to build from.
We studied a cross-section of municipal and general use airports. The common thread among the vast majority of these airports was large reserves of underutilized land that can be used for vertiports and clean energy infrastructure.