Flyshare 2020

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2018Transportation termini link people to social wellbeing, economic prosperity and the natural and built environments of the world. Altering and managing trends in transportation presents a major challenge in contemporary cities and will require the collaboration of stakeholders at local, regional, national and international levels. This research identifies flyshare and vertiports as one system solution for the growing congestion of existing transportation modes, through an emerging near-earth, vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft that will redistribute overcrowding and engage underutilized technology for the benefits of project stakeholders and transit users. The greatest operational barrier to deploying a VTOL fleet in present-day cities is a lack of sufficient locations necessary for take-off and landing sites. The design intent and functionality of vertiports and vertistops is fundamentally considered in regards to user convenience and experience. Cities and organizations that implement a flyshare system can embrace an opportunity to liberate transportation from two-dimensional confines and captivate the use of on-demand technology and service to create faster, more sustainable means of daily navigation