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Archer Teams with Reef To Repurpose Parking Garage Rooftops as eVTOL Landing Sites
The partners say that thousands of inner-city parking garages are underutilized and can be readily converted into vertiports for eVTOL aircraft.
Archer eVTOL vertiport
Archer is laying plans to operate its four-passenger eVTOL from parking garage rooftops and other locations in cities across North America. (Image: Archer)

Archer is partnering with parking garage operator Reef to secure sites in U.S. cities for its planned eVTOL air taxi services. The two companies will look to repurpose the rooftops of garages that they say are underutilized, saying that the new facilities will require only “light retrofitting” to accommodate Archer’s four-passenger eVTOL aircraft, which are due to enter commercial service in 2024, starting in Los Angeles and Miami.

In an August 24 announcement, Archer said that it will use its Prime Radiant data science platform to determine the optimum landing sites for its on-demand services. “The goal is to identify sites that already have the space needed for takeoff, landing, and charging so minimal construction is required for operations,” the company said.