24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-0.5: GENERAL LECTURE IV:

TRANSFORMATIONS IN AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

B. J. Holmes
Associate Director, Airspace Systems Programs Office, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia USA

Keywords: air transportation, transformations

Globally, our transportation systems face increasingly discomforting realities: certain of the legacy air and ground infrastructures of the 20th century will not satisfy our 21st century mobility needs. This lecture proposes a structured way of thinking about transformation from the legacy systems of the 20th century toward new systems for the 21st century.

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