Next Generation Air Transportation System

For a description of the government plans for a Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), please visit [JPDO].

Also see Mark Moore's paper “The Third Wave of Aeronautics: On-Demand Mobility”.

NextGen: PAVs and SATS

#	Title	Author	Year	Description	Size
1	Personal Air Vehicle Exploration	Mark D. Moore	2002	A super slide show of NASA Langley's PAV vision and the many technologies that it envisions, with particular emphasis on flying cars, new engines and other key enabling innovations.	2.1MB
2	Analysis of Small Aircraft as a Transportation System	Samuel M. Dollyhigh	2002	A macroeconomic model view of SATS and PAVs, using the Cirrus and Eclipse 500 as sample vehicles. Emphasizes the importance of 150 mph speed range for PAVs along with the 100-400 mile range niche.	3MB
3	Personal Air Vehicles: A Rural/ Regional and Intra-Urban On-demand Transportation System	Mark D. Moore	2003	The definitive document on the PAV vision by one of NASA's PAV Founding Fathers. This 20 page jewel presents compelling evidence for the role of PAVs in our nation's transportation system. Enumerates many of the enabling technologies and how automotive volume production will lower vehicle cost.	1.7MB
4	Next Generation NASA GA Advanced Concept	Andrew S. Hahn	2006	Andrew Hahn's excellent paper on PAV technologies and how they enable a resurgence in GA. Cites worrisome statistics about threats to the vitality of GA and how PAVs return value to the system.	2.8MB
5	The Third Wave of Aeronautics: On-Demand Mobility	Mark D. Moore	2006	Mark Moore reviews the history of aviation as waves 1, 2 and 3 and cites the innovator's dilemma as operating in the small aircraft market. Presents the PAV vision in updated perspective.	808KB
6	NASA Personal Air Transportation Technologies	Mark D. Moore	2006	Mark Moore's well-illustrated 14 page paper on the technologies that will make PAVs attractive and useful. Ties closely with the NASA PAV Challenge prize categories and their enabling technologies.	2.3MB
7	Aeronautics Innovation: NASA's Challenges and Opportunities	Stephen A. Merrill	2006	A comprehensive look at NASA Aeronautics today. Page 2-18 supports NASA's plan of inducing technologies through Centennial Challenges.	1MB
8	Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. General Aviation, Calendar Year 2001	NTSB	2001	The comprehensive statistics on accidents in aviation. More recent reports on accidents are available from AOPA's Nall Report.	2.3MB
9	NASA PAV Simulation Effort—Presented to NASA LARC	RhinoCorps Ltd. Co	2005	An important feasibility study by a battlefield simulation company showing that the skies can accommodate huge increases in air traffic without conflicts.	2.3MB
10	Frontiers of the "Responsibly Imaginable" in (Civilian) Aeronautics	Dennis Bushnell	1998	A thorough look at future aeronautics possibilities by NASA's Chief Scientist.	2.2MB
11	PAVE Futures	Dennis Bushnell	2004	NASA Chief Scientist's visionary view of personal air travel	84KB

CAFE Research

The CAFE 400

CAFE Reports

CAFE APRs

CAFE Technology Library

Enabling Technologies

Drag Reduction

Engines and Fuels

Noise Technologies

The eCFI

NextGen GA Systems

Synthetic Vision

Vehicle Parachutes