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Title: AIR TRAFFIC DELAYS AND RUNWAY CAPACITY: WHAT'S THE GAME PLAN AND WHO'S KEEPING SCORE?
Accession Number: 00465580
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The cost of delay in the ATC system is already totally out of hand. There are programs now being studied to meet this very real challenge, but they are moving at a snail's pace. There is little push for more runways, and if there were more runways at certain airports a very real question exists: "Could the present ATC environment handle the traffic?" Traffic is increasing at a yearly rate of almost 5%. American Airlines has 320 airplanes today and expects to have 530 airplanes by 1991. As traffic hits saturation at major terminals, delay grows exponentially from that point on. There is sharply increased pressure to use close parallel and interactive runways to increase airport capacity, and this is threatening to make one of the worst, unsolved safety problems a lot worse. This paper addresses the following questions: Can we apply automation in terminal areas to make better use of available runways, reduce controller workload, and increase safety? Is there any effective program now being aimed at bringing this about? Why, after the successful trials at JFK in the 60's, and the large volume of favorable reports, has computer ordered final spacing been dropped from the NAS Plan? Why has this potential for increasing the safe use of runways by 20% or more -- why has this tremendously important way of reducing the threat of multibillion dollar delay costs been discarded? Will better use of closer parallel runways and converging and diverging and interactive runways to increase traffic flow at overloaded airports increase the number of operations per hour at these impacted airports? What kind of increased rate could be expected on close parallel runways with help of a final spacing computer? What about the curved approaches of the MLS landing system -- will operations rates on critical runways be increased?
Supplemental Notes: This paper appeared in Transportation Research Circular No. 325, Airport and Terminal-Area Operations of the Future, Report of a Special Meeting, National Academy of Sciences, October 7-8, 1986, Washington, D.C. 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.
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Cirino, F APagination: p. 36-43
Publication Date: 1987-12
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Feb 29 1988 12:00AM
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