Improving National Airspace System Performance

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Technical Paper | January 2012 Methodology for Assessing Tradeoffs Between Operational and Environmental Performance in the National Airspace System Given the growing interest in addressing aviation-related environmental challenges, environmental impacts need to be assessed along with operational performance for any large-scale proposed change to the air transportation system.
Technical Paper | May 2011 An Assessment of Pilots' Concurrent Use of Runway Entrance Lights and Surface Movement Control System Guidance System Stop Bars This paper provides an introduction to the features of a new traffic flow management capability developed by the FAA and MITRE.
Technical Paper | April 2013 Analysis of Aircraft Lateral Path Tracking Accuracy and its Implications for Separation Standards Application of Area Navigation (RNAV) and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) to aircraft separation continues to be a point of difficulty which frequently centers on defining statistical models for Performance-Based Navigation (PBN).
Technical Paper | February 2012 NAS-Wide Performance: Impact of Select Uncertainty Factors and Implications for Experimental Design The objectives of this report are to: Determine the combinations of design days and sample runs per day required to achieve convergence of NAS-wide results within a specified level of accuracy.
Technical Paper | September 2012 Impact of Select Uncertainty Factors and Implications for Experimental Design Performance estimates produced by a National Airspace System (NAS)-wide simulation models vary due to the complexity and amount of variability that occurs within the NAS.
Technical Paper | February 2013 Flexibility Metrics and Their Application to Departure Queue Management Flexibility for operators is a Key Performance Area (KPA) for Air Traffic Management (ATM).
Technical Paper | February 2013 A Framework for the Development of the ATM-Weather Integration Concept Weather accounts for a majority of the air traffic delays within the National Airspace System (NAS).
Project Story | January 2011 Helping the FAA Adapt to Evolving Cyber Threats Like all large-scale government infrastructures, the National Airspace System is dealing with an increase in cyber threats.
Project Story | June 2009 TCAS: A Second Set of Eyes for Pilots TCAS, the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, has helped keep commercial and military aviation safe since 1990.
Project Story | October 2010 Researchers Tackle Effects of Wake Turbulence at Nation's Airports Wake turbulence, or powerful rotating forces of air that occur during takeoffs, routinely affect airport operations.

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