The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGEN) is the future of the US National Airspace System. Because of its revolutionary innovation of new technologies, NextGEN is still in its infancy on how it would change the aviation industry. This paper presents an overview of NextGEN and its effects on the aviation industry as a whole. The paper compares the current technology of the air transportation system with NextGEN and examines how the latter would affect airports of all sizes, aircraft operation, and the aviation industry. Several key elements are addressed. The "NextGEN for Airports" highlights the awareness and the role of future airports on how it may change the airport infrastructure, industry characteristics and aviation economics. The latest innovation of aircraft technologies is discussed focusing on how these innovations would interact with future NextGEN airports. Finally, the costs and implementation timeline of NextGEN are also addressed.


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    Title :

    The Next Generation of Air Transportation System (NextGEN)


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    10th Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference ; 2014 ; Beijing, China



    Publication date :

    2014-05-05




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English