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Title: TOWARD MEDIATION: AN EXAMINATION OF CONSENSUS-BUILDING TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO THE AIRCRAFT NOISE AND AIRPORT ACCESS DILEMMA
Accession Number: 00492080
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Current and forecast growth in operations at U.S. airports presents a mounting problem for the aviation industry, particularly major airport operators who are confronted by capacity constraints as well as an increasingly politicized constituency: local citizens who are no longer willing to tolerate the accompanying noise. Airport proprietors, legally responsible for environmental effects of airport operations, are resorting more and more to unilaterally developed noise-abatement plans that restrict access to the local airport. These plans can indirectly constrain the entire aviation system and often raise the constitutional question of restraint of interstate commerce. Beyond the federal aviation regulations already in effect, a comprehensive national policy on aircraft noise and airport access is not likely in the near future. In the absence of national guidelines, this paper examines the use of mediation as an effective option for making aircraft operations at many airports more compatible with their neighboring communities while maintaining adequate capacity at those airports to ensure an unrestricted interstate commerce system. There is evidence that formal and ardent commitment to participation in mediation from all parties, use of a preliminary dispute assessment, and the ability to distinguish positions from interests can help reduce noise and maintain capacity levels. Amending Federal Aviation Regulation Part 150 to make federal Airport Improvement Program funds available for mediation nationwide and institutionalizing a federal role in mediation would ensure adequate representation of the national interest as airports respond to political pressures to reduce noise.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1218, Public-Sector Aviation Issues: 1987-1988 Graduate Research Award Papers. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Monograph Accession #: 01492689
Authors: Johnson, Kimberly JPagination: p. 20-30
Publication Date: 1989
Serial: ISBN: 0309048133
Features: Figures
(1)
; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Policy
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM
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