Exploring concepts of operations for on-demand passenger air transportation

17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages

  Nneji, Victoria Chibuogu ^a   Stimpson, Alexander ^a   Cummings, Mary Missy ^a   Goodrich, Kenneth H ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAXICABS;

AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT; CONCEPTS OF OPERATIONS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FLYING CAR; MOBILITY PLATFORM; OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; VEHICLE SAFETY;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 85077688003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2017-3085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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