Download or read book Causes of Delays to the FAA s NextGen Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 Two Years Later written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2014 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book NextGen written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Systems Engineering in Context written by Stephen Adams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume chronicles the 16th Annual Conference on System Engineering Research (CSER) held on May 8-9, 2018 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. The CSER offers researchers in academia, industry, and government a common forum to present, discuss, and influence systems engineering research. It provides access to forward‐looking research from across the globe, by renowned academicians as well as perspectives from senior industry and government representatives. Co‐founded by the University of Southern California and Stevens Institute of Technology in 2003, CSER has become the preeminent event for researchers in systems engineering across the globe. Topics include though are not limited to the following: Systems in context: · Formative methods: requirements · Integration, deployment, assurance · Human Factors · Safety and Security Decisions/ Control & Design; Systems Modeling: · Optimization, Multiple Objectives, Synthesis · Risk and resiliency · Collaborative autonomy · Coordination and distributed decision-making Prediction: · Prescriptive modeling; state estimation · Stochastic approximation, stochastic optimization and control Integrative Data engineering: · Sensor Management · Design of Experiments

Download or read book Air Traffic Control written by Gerald L. Dillingham and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies potential scenarios for future air traffic controller attrition and the Federal Aviation Agency's (FAA) plans for dealing with such attrition. Because of the significant hiring in the early 1980s to replace strikers who had been fired, many thousands of FAA's controllers will soon become eligible to retire, potentially leaving FAA with too few fully trained controllers. This report: (1) identifies likely future attrition scenarios for FAA's controller workforce, and (2) examines FAA's strategy for responding to its short- and long-term staffing needs, including how it plans to address the challenges it may face. Charts and tables.

Download or read book AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL FAA Needs to Better Prepare for Impending Wave of Controller Attrition written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for managing the nation's air transportation system so that the 200,000 aircraft taking off and landing each day can safely and efficiently carry more than 700 million passengers per year. Because of the significant hiring in the early 1980s to replace strikers who had been fired, many thousands of FAAs controllers will soon become eligible to retire, potentially leaving FAA with too few fully trained controllers. Because of these concerns, the chairman an ranking democratic member of the Subcommittee on Aviation, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, asked GAO to (1) identify likely future attrition scenarios for FAAs controller workforce and (2) examine FAAs strategy for responding to its short- and long-term staffing needs, including how it plans to address the challenges it may face. To identify likely future attrition scenarios, we (1) reviewed FAAs 10-year hiring plan and associated attrition forecasts for approximately 15,000 controller specialists who actively control and separate traffic in the air and on the ground; (2) analyzed FAAs workforce database to determine when the current controllers (those at FAA as of June 30, 2001) world become eligible to retire; (3) developed a computer model to predict future attrition based on historic levels; and (4) developed and administered a survey to a statistically representative sample of controllers so as to obtain information on when they might leave FAA. GAO's analysis covers over 20,000 controllers-the 15,000 controller specialists whom FAA analyzed, plans about 5,000 controllers who supervise and manage the air traffic control system. GAO included the additional personnel because attrition from these positions is generally filled from the controller specialist ranks and, thus, omitting them would understate potential attrition among all controllers. In addition, among other things, we contacted all FAA regional offices, the 14 college7.

Download or read book Federal Aviation Administration Plan for Office and Facility Consolidation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal Aviation Administration s Facility Consolidation Report written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Improving the Air Traffic Control System written by David Leonard Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Traffic Controller Staffing in the en Route Domain written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for a Review of the En Route Air Traffic Control Complexity and Workload Model and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2010 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB Special Report 301: Air Traffic Controller Staffing in the En Route Domain: A Review of the Federal Aviation Administration's Task Load Model examines the structure, empirical basis, and validation methods of a Federal Aviation Administration model that estimates the time controllers spend performing tasks when handling en route traffic. The model's task load output is being used to inform workforce planning. The committee that developed the report concluded that the model is superior to past models because it takes into account traffic complexity when estimating task load. However, the report recommends that more operational and experimental data on task performance be obtained to establish and validate many key model assumptions, relationships, and parameters.

Download or read book Federal Aviation Administration Office and Facility Consolidations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Federal Aviation Administration s Approach for Determining Future Air Traffic Controller Staffing Needs written by National Research Council (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB Special Report 314, The Federal Aviation Administration's Approach for Determining Future Air Traffic Controller Staffing Needs, examines the methods used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to estimate how many controllers are needed to staff its air traffic control facilities and FAA's processes for using these estimates to properly distribute controllers across facilities. According to the report, FAA's models for determining air traffic controller staffing needs are suitable for developing initial estimates of the number of controllers required at terminal areas and airport towers, but the models used for the centers controlling aircraft en route between airports can be improved. In addition, as a matter of priority, the FAA should collaborate with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association to develop and implement an enhanced tool for all facilities that is capable of creating efficient controller work schedules that incorporate fatigue mitigation strategies. The report recommends that the FAA analyze a wide range of data, such as accident and incident reports and voluntary reports by controllers, to identify relationships between staffing and safety. In addition, the controller workforce should be involved in staffing decisions, particularly as knowledge emerges about relevant safety issues. The report also says that FAA should ensure that staffing continue to be appropriate as FAA implements the new air traffic operations environment associated with the Next Generation Transportation System, a modernization initiative to shift air traffic management from ground-based radar to a satellite system"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Addressing Uncertainty about Future Airport Activity Levels in Airport Decision Making written by Ian S. Kincaid and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2012 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a guidebook on how to develop air traffic forecasts in the face of a broad range of uncertainties. It is targeted at airport operators, planners, designers, and other stakeholders involved in planning, managing, and financing of airports, and it provides a systems analysis methodology that augments standard master planning and strategic planning approaches. This methodology includes a set of tools for improving the understanding and application of risk and uncertainty in air traffic forecasts as well as for increasing overall effectiveness of airport planning and decision making. In developing the guidebook, the research team studied existing methods used in traditional master planning as well as methods that directly address risk and uncertainty, and based on that fundamental research, they created a straightforward and transparent systems analysis methodology for expanding and improving traditional planning practices, applicable through a wide range of airport sizes. The methods presented were tested through a series of case study applications that also helped to identify additional opportunities for future research and long-term enhancements.

Download or read book National Airspace System transformation will require cultural change balanced funding priorities and use of all available management tools report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Plan for the Future written by U. S. Department Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety is the top priority of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as it manages America's National Airspace System (NAS). The NAS is the common network of U.S. airspace - air navigation facilities, equipment, and services; airports or landing areas; aeronautical charts, information and services; rules, regulations, and procedures; technical information; and manpower and material. Thanks to the expertise of people and the support of technology, tens of thousands of aircraft are guided safely and expeditiously every day through the NAS to their destinations. Air traffic controller workload and traffic volume are dynamic, and so are the FAA's staffing needs. A primary factor affecting controller workload is the demand created by air traffic, encompassing both commercial and non-commercial activity. Commercial activity includes air carrier and commuter/air taxi traffic. Non-commercial activity includes general aviation and military traffic. Since the early 1990s, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have operated on a limited basis in the National Airspace System (NAS) and mainly supported public operations, such as military and border security operations. In recent years, UAS and operations have significantly increased in number, technical complexity, and application. The list of uses has rapidly expanded to encompass a broad range of activities, including aerial photography, surveying, communications and broadcast, as well as hobby and recreation. In December 2015, the FAA began registration of all Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). As policy and technology updates allow widespread use of UAS for commercial applications, impact on Air Traffic Control workload will be incorporated into our models and forecasts. Oversight of UAS is aided by FAA's new compliance philosophy which is designed to help identify and correct potential hazards before they result in an incident or accident. Adequate numbers of controllers must be available to cover the peaks in traffic caused by weather and daily, weekly or seasonal variations, so we continue to "staff to traffic." This practice gives us the flexibility throughout each day to match the number of controllers at each facility with traffic volume and workload.

Download or read book Air Traffic Control Modernization written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides the results of our review of the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) major acquisitions. At the request of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, we updated our May 2005 status report on FAAs major acquisitions and examined how projects are impacted by plans for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Our objectives were to examine (1) overall trends affecting FAAs Facilities and Equipment (F & E) or capital account, (2) recent changes in cost and schedule baselines of FAAs major acquisition programs, and (3) the effect of NextGen plans on existing projects. Our review examined 18 projects valued at $17.5 billion in capital costs. These projects include developing new automated controller tools, acquiring new technologies to prevent accidents on runways and taxiways, and modernizing FAA facilities that manage large segments of airspace over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. We performed this audit in accordance with generally accepted Government Auditing Standards as prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States.