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19 studies confirm that human brains have innate ‘hard-wired’ alarms that are activatedwhen personal boundaries are violated. See: Dr. Daniel Kennedy et al. Personal spaceregulation by the human amygdala. Nature Neuroscience, 2009; DOI: 10.1038/nn.2381(Report from Cal Tech).The public resists using public transit for other reasons too. Buses and trains areinherently constrained to the limitations of two-dimensional, single-file surface travel andthey impose the added delay of multiple stops. People deem the waiting, transfer maze,delays and limited distribution of transit stations to be unacceptable.These factors cast doubt on the likelihood that public transit solutions to gridlock willsucceed. Indeed, public transit ridership is declining. A study by the Madison Institute ofthe future impact of high speed rail on reducing road use has made a similar, pessimisticforecast. 10 See Figure 2.7, below.Figure 2.6Unlike surface transportation, flying can provide highways in the sky with unlimitednumbers of lanes and overpasses, off-ramps and merges. A highway in the sky is neverblocked by accidents, toxic spills, “rubberneckers” or pedestrians. It can be dynamicallyreconfigured instantly and does not require public purchase of expensive land that must
20 be permanently removed from open spaces or any other use. Unlike paving with asphaltand the urban heat islands it creates, building aeronautical highways does not requiremillions of barrels of crude oil. The JPDO is already planning such pathways inAmerica’s NextGen air traffic system and similar efforts are underway in Australia.http://www.jpdo.gov/nextgen.asphttp://www.smartskies.com.au/research/flighttrials/phaseone.jspTHE POCKET AIRPORT CONCEPTThe transformation of aviation enabled by SAVs is predicated upon the concept of“pocket airports” and heliports, affordable parcels as small as 2 acres that can be situatedwithin a very short distance from one’s destination doorstep. That short distance,modeled here as just 3 miles or less, can be traveled by walking, biking, golf cart or DOT500 vehicles on low-traffic residential streets.Figure 2.7 An idealized pocket airport.Aircraft depicted are motor-gliders that have 50 foot wingspansPocket airports are designed exclusively for GQ V/ESTOL aircraft and will be built onlyafter such future aircraft are created, proven safe and popularized. The popularization ofGQ V/ESTOL aircraft will most likely begin with air taxi services into large corporatecampuses and private residential airparks. This will demonstrate their great utility. Later,as flight deck automation and NextGen’s air traffic control system matures and makes
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