60 ton Commercial Interplanetary Transport

[DFW]

This is a 90 passenger 5G Interplanetary "airliner". I used MT guidelines for passenger seating as MGT makes you use what would be, almost, a small stateroom volume for individual passenger seats.

Welcome to 40th Century luxury commercial transport.

http://www.4shared.com/document/GDkAVVzZ/60t_Commercial_Interplanetary_.html :lol:

 

[IanBruntlett]

Looking good

What are your thoughts on ticket prices?

Or maximum distance to travel? For really long journeys (the space equivalent of UK to Australia) how far could you go?

For really long journeys could/should the passenger seats be replaced by bigger, sleep-friendly seats?

 

[AndrewW]

This is a 90 passenger 5G Interplanetary "airliner". I used MT guidelines for passenger seating as MGT makes you use what would be, almost, a small stateroom volume for individual passenger seats.

Well, could use acceleration couches that takes you down to 1/2 ton per passenger, and allows for being a bed for sleeping during your trip.

 

[GamerDude]

Looking good

What are your thoughts on ticket prices?

Or maximum distance to travel? For really long journeys (the space equivalent of UK to Australia) how far could you go?

For really long journeys could/should the passenger seats be replaced by bigger, sleep-friendly seats?

Cost/distance... maybe set on fixed routes variable by the relative position of your departure world and destination world on the planned date of departure. Kind of like current rail or air travel (just the departure and destination aren't moving relative to each other).

How far? well what is out in the system to visit. In the Sol system you could go from Mercury to Pluto (oops Neptune/Uranus - I get them mixed up) but WHY?

 

[GamerDude]

This is a 90 passenger 5G Interplanetary "airliner". I used MT guidelines for passenger seating as MGT makes you use what would be, almost, a small stateroom volume for individual passenger seats.

Well, could use acceleration couches that takes you down to 1/2 ton per passenger, and allows for being a bed for sleeping during your trip.

Basically this is intended to be a train on long distance trips, like Amtrak in the US (which I had the pleasure of taking literally coast-to-coast back in 1995). The seats have a decent ability to recline, some overhead storage like a tour bus (Greyhound) and a community bathroom or two.

Those seats were on second level along with the 'dining car/lounge'. Bottom level was bathrooms the 'sleeper cars' of bed with a little room to move around, and a spot for luggage.

Funny thing was, that's what we had from Seattle WA into Chicago, where I had to change trains to get to Philadelphia PA (actually Wilmington DE). In Chicago we were changed to standard commuter type rail cars. Seats that sat two (not two individual seats) on each side of the car, central aisle, shelf above for your stuff (luggage stored elsewhere). No reclining, no real wiggle room. A freakin' tour bus would have been better at least those are two individual seats and recline some.

I'll have to download the spreadsheet later.

 

[DFW]

What are your thoughts on ticket prices?
Or maximum distance to travel? For really long journeys (the space equivalent of UK to Australia) how far could you go?
For really long journeys could/should the passenger seats be replaced by bigger, sleep-friendly seats?

Didn't work out the econ on that yet. Spec'ed at ~18 hours covers inner planets. A different model is in the works for 24 hour + travel.

 

[DFW]

Well, could use acceleration couches that takes you down to 1/2 ton per passenger, and allows for being a bed for sleeping during your trip.

Didn't see that in small craft section of HG for passengers.

 

[Emperor Herdan]

Acceleration Benches are on pg 85 of AM3arrians but I don't think its quite what I would want for interplanetary travel (Temporary transportation, limited comfort).

1 dTn for 6 passengers @ 10,000 per dTn.

Hope that helps

Take care

E. Herdan

 

[DFW]

Acceleration Benches are on pg 85 of AM3arrians but I don't think its quite what I would want for interplanetary travel (Temporary transportation, limited comfort).

1 dTn for 6 passengers @ 10,000 per dTn.

Hope that helps

Take care

E. Herdan

Thanks for the info. I don't have Darrians. But yes, you are correct, 6/ton is a bit too cramped. I'm using ~3 people to a Dton.

 

[AndrewW]

Didn't see that in small craft section of HG for passengers.

Covered in the High Guard Errata.

 

[DFW]

Didn't see that in small craft section of HG for passengers.

Covered in the High Guard Errata.

Thanks. Just read it. Cr30,000 & 7000 liters is a bit steep for a single seat though.

 

[rust]

Hmm ... one could remove the passenger seats and the galley to install
a tank with ca. 35 dtons = 470,000 liters of water, which with an average
consumption of ca. 5 liters per person and day would be sufficient to sup-
ply ca. 3,000 colonists for an entire month. 8)