The design standards include critical information that designers and builders will need to follow to allow for safe takeoffs and landings such as:
• Safety-critical geometry and design elements: Dimensions for vertiport touchdown and liftoff areas, additional airspace needed for approach and departure paths and load-bearing capacity. In the future FAA anticipates a high rate of operations at many vertiports.
• Lighting, markings and visual aids: Guidelines on markings, lighting and visual aids that identify the facility as a vertiport. The FAA recommends the Vertiport Identification Symbol, as shown in the middle of the graphic below.
• Charging and electric infrastructure: Initial safety standards and guidelines for batteries and charging equipment that will be central to vertiports.
• On-airport vertiports: Requirements for airports looking to add vertiports to an existing commercial airport, including the distance a vertiport
• would have to be from a current runway.