Will Drones Change Personal Mobility?

摘要

When the NAS was designed more than 50 years ago, its creators used the US transportation model as its backbone; they could not have foreseen the volume and type of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) missions infiltrating our airspace today. Some of the uses of UAS are transportation related. One of the areas where UAS technology might spur a large increase in demand is the air taxi industry. In this article, we take a detailed look into UAS technology for air taxi services and ask if the demand for air taxi services will increase with the introduction of UAS technology. If so, by how much?