TECHNOLOGY PATHWAYS: Assessing the Integrated Plan for a Next Generation Air Transportation System by National Research Council of the National Academies

Author:National Research Council of the National Academies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Engineering and Technology : Policy, Reviews and Evaluations. Space and Aeronautics : Policy, Reviews and Evaluations
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 2005-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

REFERENCES

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). 2004. Capacity Needs in the National Airspace System. Washington, D.C.: FAA. Available online at <www.faa.gov/arp/publications/reports/index.cfm>.

General Accounting Office (GAO). 2000. Aviation and the Environment— Results from a Survey of the Nation’s 50 Busiest Commercial Service Airports. Washington, D.C.: GAO. Available online at <www.gao.gov/new.items/rc00222.pdf>.

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Implementation

Numerous efforts have been made during the last 10 years to improve the performance of the U.S. air transportation system. Lessons learned from these efforts include the following:

ATC [air traffic control] system development and implementation are chronically delayed, in large part due to shortcomings in analyzing and establishing operational requirements…. Key criteria necessary for more effective ATC system development include stable leadership within the organization, multidisciplinary development teams that cross organizational and public-private boundaries, and a commitment and understanding throughout the organization that ATC system development must be more operationally driven than technology driven…. Modernization efforts [for the National Airspace System] have most often been held up by inadequate understanding of operational and procedural issues, rather than by insufficient technological expertise. (OTA, 1997, pp. 4, 17, 28)

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