What is Short-Haul Air Transportation ?

• Air travel over stage lengths ? ? 400 NM (644 Km)

• Various modes

  • Trains, Automobiles, buses, ships, aircraft, rotorcraft

• Major challenges

  • Increasing congestion of roads, airports and air corridors
  • Cost and environmental impediments in developing new airports
  • Inability of ground systems to adjust to changing demand patterns
  • Enormous capital cost for improving/extending ground systems

• Possible solution

  • Air systems with Vertical / Short Takeoff and Landing capability

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