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What about places with limited rail/roads like Alaska and Kazakhstan?

• jcranmer 4y ago
  In general, where there's limited infrastructure, there's limited demand for infrastructure. I can't speak for Kazakhstan, but most of rural Alaska is adequately serviced using tiny Cessna-sized aircraft for shipping, and the parts that aren't (say, Prudhoe Bay) already have existing ground and/or marine infrastructure to supply them.
• ghaff 4y ago
  As I recall, about 1/3 of the population of Alaska is in the vicinity of Anchorage which has a port and is connected to Fairbanks by road. Juneau, the third largest city, is also on the water--as are other cities in Southeast Alaska. Many other cities--such as they are (the 4th largest city in Alaska has a population of 20,000)--are also on the ocean.
• traceroute66 4y ago
  > What about places with limited rail/roads like Alaska and Kazakhstan? What about them ? If there's no cargo facility there already, then nobody's going to suddenly turn up and build an airshipport (or whatever you want to call it). The way modern day logistics works is like an inverse pyramid, you fly/ship/train in bulk somewhere, and then you go smaller and smaller scale to the remote/rural areas ... right down to a man on a bicycle or whatever. Cargo airships, IF they ever happen, are not going to change the fundamental way modern logistics works. Basic economies of supply and demand. Sending the man on the bicycle will always be the cheapest and most sensible option for remote areas where only a handful of people live, especially if they live many miles from each other (e.g. rural farming).