Terminal VTOL em Curitiba

Abstract

The logistics infrastructure system for cargo and passengers in Latin America has historically been conditioned by the road system, which was promoted mainly after the 1950s at the expense of airports, railways, and ports. These modes of transport had already suffered from a lack of adequate investment and in recent decades have remained stagnant in the majority of cases, a clear advantage that hinders integration, especially in a territory with such diverse reliefs and biospheres as this. Analyzing these gaps helps to understand the difficulties encountered historically in their development and integration, só proposing a new mode of transport is not a utopia, it is to have a new port of perspective and to finally see our territory strategically, to prepare adequately to overcome the coming decades. Dirigibles, which had lost ground due to technical restrictions, have today, with the technological development achieved. The consolidation of eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft), become a viable, safe, ecological, and rapidly expanding alternative in several countries, mainly to serve sectors with difficult access, isolated areas, or where the cost of construction makes it unfeasible. This work makes a general analysis of conventional modes of transport compared to dirigibles, cost-benefit relationships, and the respective possibilities for their implementation in our territory, as acupuncture solutions for integrated logistics between Brazil and Latin America.