A Framework to Elaborate on the Requirements for Electrified Commuter and Regional Aircraft

With increasing capabilities of electric motors and energy storage, aircraft designs for electrified commuter regional become more relevant than ever. Design concepts are often derived optimised according to existing, conventional reference aircraft; however, their characteristics differ the underlying trade-offs divergent. This work aims derive describe major external requirements design proposed system. Therefore, a travel time benefit analysis was conducted that considered European NUTS-3 regions, as well concentration population. Total times individual road, high-speed rail, air services, traditional airline services were compared. Travel calculations based mostly on third-party road railway APIs, whereas traffic management data. The data show potential connections distances between 200 950 km. majority these currently operated flights, which involve extraordinarily long first/last mile transportation. regions already covered with airfields offering sufficient runway length; capacities apron space could bottlenecks when considering possible shift from decentral services.