A cap on Bay Area growth.

Due to the high cost of living in the Bay Area and subsequent shortage of workers it is becoming increasingly hard to scale up a company in Silicon Valley. By some accounts there are over 500,000 unfilled jobs in the Bay Area and that figure shows no sign of getting any smaller.

Bay Area growth is beginning to be capped as employers struggle to find workers at affordable prices. The result is that it is becoming increasingly common to see companies looking to grow outside of Silicon Valley or entrepreneurs start companies outside of the Bay Area.

Densification is not the silver bullet.

Local government is eager to solve income inequality problem as well as reduce traffic congestion via densification. The challenge is that densification is resisted as few people living in a single family home wants to be “densified” and so the problem keeps getting worse every year.

Compounding this problem is that rail transit is very slow and expensive to build, plus it is not possible to build enough roads or use more cars to connect the Bay Area’s outlying, lower cost cities, as alternative places to live for this ever growing number of Silicon Valley workers.

Existing airports are available.

Existing General Aviation (GA) airports are everywhere, is infrastructure we have invested in for many many years and are keen to get in on the electric aviation revolution. Unfortunately, many communities surrounding airports typically want to shutter these facilities due to noise.

Electric aviation is very low noise so this technology eliminates the reason why most people object to aircraft. Airports are operational all over California and low noise aviation offers the potential to provide the first stepping stones towards creating a mass transit system in the sky for Bay Area workers.

Can this Scale?

A “Mega-Vertiport”, vertically stacked on as little as 2 acres could handle 1,000 landings per hour and 1,000 landings could deliver as many as 4,000 passengers per hour.

A Mega-Vertiport built in each of the large Bay Area’s existing employer’s car parks would only displace parking for approximately 300 cars, yet could enable at least 1/3rd of its work force to commute car free every day.

1,000 Vertiports installed all over the Bay Area could move 1.5 million commuters per day which would enable more than ¼ of the 4 million Bay Area workers to fly to work everyday.

A fleet of 80,000 eVTOL’s could move 1.5 million people to work everyday in the Bay Area. This means that a Silicon Valley “Air Metro” system would require less than 1/3rd of the cars manufactured in the world each and every day.