TRIS Online Record

Printable View

Title	CAPACITY NEEDS IN THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM: AN ANALYSIS OF AIRPORT AND METROPOLITAN AREA DEMAND AND OPERATIONAL CAPACITY
Accession No	00984712
Corp. Authors / Publisher	National Archives and Records Administration
Publication Date	20040600
Description	54 p.
Languages	English
Abstract	This study was undertaken because the Federal Aviation Administration wanted to assure that the long term capacity of the aviation system matched forecasts of demand. It is important to look not only at individual airports in the longer term, but also at the infrastructure of the airport network to ensure sufficient capacity to meet that demand. To that end, two basic questions were asked by the FAA: Which of the 35 Operational Evolution Plan (OEP) airports will be able to meet future demand and which will not, and why; Besides the 35 OEP airports, will there be other geographic areas of the country unable to accommodate demand for air transportation; and the OEP is a 10-year plan to increase the capacity and efficiency of the National Airspace System. It focuses on infrastructure -- primarily new runways -- and technological and procedural initiatives.
Supplemental Information	This document is currently available on CD-ROM and paper only.
TRT Terms	Air transportation ; Airport operations ; Airports ; Capacity restraint ; Demand ; General aviation ; Infrastructure
Identifier Terms	National Airspace System
Subject Areas	A10 Forecasts; A13 Government Policy, Planning and Regulation
Availability	National Technical Information Service Order Number: PB2005-101032
TRIS Files	ATRIS
Database	TRIS Online

TRIS is a bibliographic database funded by sponsors of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), primarily the state departments of transportation and selected federal transportation agencies. TRIS Online is hosted by the National Transportation Library under a cooperative agreement between the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and TRB.