Regional Sky Transit Ⅱ

摘要

Regional Sky Transit (RST) is the name applied to a proposed system of ubiquitous, short-range, on-demand, affordable, point-to-point delivery of people by electrically-powered, autonomous, ultra-quiet Sky Taxis. The RST system relies upon easily accessible small, "pocket airparks" adequate for vertical or extremely short take off and landing (V/ESTOL) that allow the public to minimize ground travel time (GTT) on short trips within a highly populated mega-region. Regional Sky Transit was first presented in an AIAA paper at AVIATION 2015~1. That seminal paper has generated intense interest and inquiries leading to a number of follow-on explorations regarding RST's viability, operational details, design requirements and implementation plan. This paper presents those explorations along with an analysis of their significance.