The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) manages and operates the National Airspace System (NAS), a significant national resource. However, the demands on this system are continuously growing, and changing technologies provide the opportunity to improve system effectiveness and efficiency. Today, 23 of the country's largest airports are plagued by more than 20,000 hours of delay per year, which is projected to grow to 40 major airports by 2000. Nationally, air traffic delays cost the economy an estimated $6 billion in passenger delays and $3 billion in airline operating costs in 1990. At current trends, these costs will increase 50 percent within 10 years. The FAA must accommodate the increasing demand on limited airport and airspace capacity, deal with crucial airport security issues, and cope with the unforeseen problems of an aging aircraft fleet. These requirements pose unprecedented challenges, which can only be met through a major investment in research, engineering and development (R,E&D). The projects in this Plan are those needed to bring the FAA's vision of the future system to reality in the context of a continuing top-level system engineering process. The Plan has enjoyed contributions from across the spectrum of scientific, operational, and user communities.Plan contents: capacity and air traffic management technology; communications, navigation, and surveilance; weather; airport technology; aircraft safety technology; system security technology; human factors and aviation medecine; environment and energy,and innovative/cooperative research.
Federal Aviation Administration Plan for Research, Engineering and Development, 1995
1994
216 pages
Report
No indication
English
Air Transportation , Research Program Administration & Technology Transfer , Air navigation , Air traffic control , Air transportation , Aircraft safety , Airport security , Airports , National airspace system , Research and development , Aircraft communication , Airline operations , Environment effects , Flight hazards , Human factors engineering , Operating costs , Systems engineering , Weather forecasting