More on Airship Public Transportation

I had some more ideas about the concept of an airship public transportation system that I wrote about before that I would like to share.

One of the problemswith a transportation system like this, is that with the large amount of people that would use it, and the frequent stops, it would be hard to insure that everyone was paying their fair share when it comes to who pays how much and when.


In my example, the Airship would fly from 3 or 4 major cities. Picking up and dropping off passengers at each stop.

The airships would have seating for about 300-400 people, meaning that with a limited staff it would be difficult to make sure everyone has a ticket, and making sure that passengers got off when they were suppose to would be a massive headache if they only payed to go half way.

So I was thinking of a solution and realized that the free market had already come up with a solution to this problem.


I'm sure you all know about the popular taxi service Uber by now. It allows for users to pay their fairs with their cellphones, by keeping track of how far they went using the phone's GPS.

We can use this same technology in our public airship transportation system.


Passengers with the cellphone app, will have an account that will automatically deduct the fees from their bank account, or some kinda trust, when they walk on and off the airship.

Sensors on the airship combined with the GPS in the phone will insure the transaction. In this way, most passengers will be able to freely walk on and off the airship without needing to even think about buying a ticket, and the company running the enterprise can be assured that passengers with the cellphone app are not stealing a free ride.


Passengers without a cellphone can still buy a ticket but they will just need to pay full price and get a refund from a refund machine which will be placed behind a one-way gate as they are leaving the Airship.

It will be much like a fast-track system at theme parks or the DMV.


This solution will fix the problem of keeping track of fairs and will also mean that the airship itself can have a much larger area of operation with more stops along the way.