23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-7.7.4

PATS PERSONAL AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

J. Rohacs
Budapest University, Hungary

Keywords: personal and small aircraft, personal air transport, air transportation

The needs in personal transportation are increasing very rapidly by exponential way. Even intelligent highways and high-speed railways are not the final solutions of problems of personal traveling. As soon as possible we have to develop the personal air transportation system. The technology is available to establish the safety, economical and environment friendly personal air trans-portation system (PATS). This paper shortly describes and summarizes the general ideas, problems and tasks of developing the new transportation system.

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