NextGen for Airports: Understanding the airport's role in performance-based navigation : resource guide

NextGen for Airports: Understanding the airport's role in performance-based navigation : resource guide
Author: Sebastian D. Timar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2016
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) refers to the federal programs (predominately airspace, air traffic, or avionics related) that are designed to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS). The Airport Cooperative Research Program's (ACRP's) NextGen initiative aims to inform airport operators about some of these programs and how the enabling practices, data, and technologies resulting from them will affect airports and change how they operate. Volume 1, Understanding the airport's role in performance-based navigation : resource guide, provides comprehensive information to practitioners concerning all aspects of Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) and how implementation affects overall airport operations. This Resource Guide encompasses background information, description of effects on short- and long-term airport development, impacts on safety and performance measures, and other critical factors affecting future airport operations. In addition to providing guidance to users on available resources for additional assistance, this volume also includes lessons learned and best practices based on findings from case studies that examined the airport operator's role in PBN implementation. Volume 2, Engaging airport stakeholders : guidebook, helps airports engage the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), aircraft operators, community representatives, and other airport stakeholders during the planning, environmental review, design, deployment, and monitoring phases of NextGen implementation. The guidance references a NextGen Outreach Toolkit, which contain videos, an interactive flow chart, and links to additional resources. The NextGen Outreach Toolkit, which will be available for download from a forthcoming website, accompanies Volume 2. The Toolkit also incorporates material created in conjunction with the other projects in the ACRP 150 (NextGen) series. These materials may help airports establish a continuous engagement strategy to balance stakeholder needs as well as efficient NextGen implementation. Volume 3, Resources for airports, is a resource guide that provides a comprehensive list of NextGen technologies and initiatives categorized and described for airport practitioners, and presents existing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans that could potentially affect airports of all sizes and roles, the larger aviation industry, and the public. This guide presents a likely timeline for implementation and highlights the FAA's planned rollout of near- and mid-term elements as well as its long-range vision. Appendices include a glossary of terms and a Public Information Toolkit for communicating about the NextGen initiative to the broad spectrum of external stakeholders. This Public Information Toolkit is also available at the ACRP NextGen for Airports. Volume 4, Leveraging NextGen spatial data to benefit airports : guidebook, provides information for airport operators on the creation, maintenance, and use of spatial data that is generated as a result of NextGen initiatives. The data that airports have or will have to produce is used in a variety of different ways to advance some of the NextGen programs. This guidebook identifies benefits to airports from the spatial data that is required or produced from NextGen programs, not all of which are obvious. The guidebook also describes costs, and financial and legal considerations. In addition, a customizable presentation template can be downloaded from the report webpage at www.trb.org/acrp. The presentation can be tailored to educate various communities about NextGen and spatial data.

Learning About PBN

Learning About PBN
Author: Facundo Conforti
Publisher: Biblioteca Aeronáutica
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

Conventional navigation is dependent upon ground-based radio navigation aids. It has been the mainstay of aviation for the last years. Pilots, operators, and manufacturers are all familiar with the associated technology, avionics, instrumentation, operations, training and performance. Performance-based navigation (PBN) detailed in the Performance-based Navigation (PBN) Manual (ICAO Doc 9613), is based upon area navigation principles. While various methods of area navigation have been in existence for many years, the widespread use of area navigation as a primary navigation function is a more recent phenomenon. The PBN concept is intended to better define the use of area navigation systems and is expected to replace many of the existing conventional navigation routes within the next twenty years. The fundamentals of PBN operations are relatively straightforward, and operational approval need not be a complicated process for either applicant or regulator. However, the transition to new technology, new navigation and new operational concepts and the dependence on data-driven operations require careful management. In this manual you will learn all about PBN, RNAV and RNP procedures.

NextGen

NextGen
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2009
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

National Airspace System: Setting On-Time Performance Targets at Congested Airports Could Help Focus FAA’s Actions

National Airspace System: Setting On-Time Performance Targets at Congested Airports Could Help Focus FAA’s Actions
Author: Susan Fleming
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1437934153

Flight delays have beset the U.S. national airspace system. In 2007, more than one-quarter of all flights either arrived late or were canceled across the system. The FAA is making substantial investments in transforming to a new air traffic control system -- the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) -- a system that is expected to reduce delays over the next decade. This report explains the extent to which: (1) flight delays in the U.S. national airspace system have changed since 2007 and the contributing factors to these changes; and (2) actions by the FAA are expected to reduce delays in the next 2 to 3 years. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.

Modelling and Managing Airport Performance

Modelling and Managing Airport Performance
Author: Konstantinos Zografos
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2013-08-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780470974186

Modelling and Managing Airport Performance provides an integrated view of state-of-the-art research on measuring and improving the performance of airport systems with consideration of both airside and landside operations. The considered facets of performance include capacity, delays, economic costs, noise, emissions and safety. Several of the contributions also examine policies for managing congestion and allocating sparse capacity, as well as for mitigating the externalities of noise, emissions, and safety/risk. Key features: Provides a global perspective with contributing authors from Europe, North and South America with backgrounds in academia, research institutions, government, and industry Contributes to the definition, interpretation, and shared understanding of airport performance measures and related concepts Considers a broad range of measures that quantify operational and environmental performance, as well as safety and risk Discusses concepts and strategies for dealing with the management of airport performance Presents state-of-the-art modelling capabilities and identifies future modelling needs Themed around 3 sections – Modelling Airport Performance, Assessing Airport Impacts, and Managing Airport Performance and Congestion Modelling and Managing Airport Performance is a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the global air transportation community.

National Airspace System

National Airspace System
Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2005
Genre: Air traffic control
ISBN: 9781422305041

A Review of the Next Generation Air Transportation System

A Review of the Next Generation Air Transportation System
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2015-06-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0309371813

The Next Generation Air Transportation System's (NextGen) goal is the transformation of the U.S. national airspace system through programs and initiatives that could make it possible to shorten routes, navigate better around weather, save time and fuel, reduce delays, and improve capabilities for monitoring and managing of aircraft. A Review of the Next Generation Air Transportation provides an overview of NextGen and examines the technical activities, including human-system design and testing, organizational design, and other safety and human factor aspects of the system, that will be necessary to successfully transition current and planned modernization programs to the future system. This report assesses technical, cost, and schedule risk for the software development that will be necessary to achieve the expected benefits from a highly automated air traffic management system and the implications for ongoing modernization projects. The recommendations of this report will help the Federal Aviation Administration anticipate and respond to the challenges of implementing NextGen.