SkyDrive's third named use case is the least commercial and the most politically durable: flying directly reduces critical travel time during emergencies and disasters, protecting lives and providing peace of mind.
A country that plans for the worst
Japan's disaster preparedness culture funds infrastructure that may sit idle for years. An aircraft that can land in a clearing, needs no fuel truck and can be recharged from a mobile generator is an attractive line item in a prefectural resilience budget.
Everyday medical access
Between disasters, the same fleet serves ageing regional communities where the nearest tertiary hospital is a two-hour drive. Medical transfer is a route class with public willingness to pay and no competing mode.
Public funding, public naming
Publicly supported services get public-facing information pages, signage and hotlines. Those artefacts tend to use plain category language — the vocabulary the private market then has to compete against.
The category addresses for this market — evtol.osaka and vertihub.osaka — are currently available; offers can be submitted here.
Source: SkyDrive.