A public transportation
system combines a unique combination of components that includes interoperable electric-powered vehicles, facilities, hardware and
software having specifications, standards, processes, capabilities,
nomenclature, and concepts of operations that together include a concerted, comprehensive, multi-
modal, future
system for moving people and goods that is herein named Quiet Urban Air Delivery (QUAD) and in which uniquely-capable, ultra-quiet, one to six-seat, electrically-powered, autonomous aircraft (SkyQarts) fly sub-193 kilometer trips on precise trajectories with negligible control latency and perform extremely short take-offs and landings (ESTOL) with curved traffic patterns at a highly-distributed network of very small, airports (“SkyNests”) that themselves have standardized compatible facilities that interoperate with SkyQarts as well as with versatile, autonomous electric-powered
payload carts (EPCs) and robotic delivery carts (RDCs) to provide safe, fast, on-demand,
community-acceptable,
environmentally friendly, high-capacity, affordable door-to-door delivery of both passengers and cargo across urban, suburban and rural settings across the globe.