Impact of Advanced Air Transport Technology. Part 2, The Air Cargo System - Background Paper

摘要

This background paper is one of four parts of an OTA assessment of the economic, environmental, and societal impacts of advances in the technology of transport aircraft. This paper, Part 2, addresses the air cargo system. It seeks to put in perspective the role and importance of aircraft technology in the total air cargo system. It is not a detailed study of aircraft technology; it focuses instead on the principal factors that could influence the future evolution of air cargo transport.