AIRPORT SURFACE TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS - EXPANDED

A previous MITRE Technical Report, Airport Surface Traffic Control Systems Deployment Analysis, FAA-RD-74-6, presented an analysis of ASTC (Airport Surface Traffic Control) system requirements and developed estimates of the deployment potential of proposed ASTC system alternatives for 19 air carrier airports. The primary requirement was determined to be improved surveillance which resulted in an estimated deployment of one of two surveillance systems at 16 airports by 1980. This report presents an expansion of that deployment analysis to include a total of 39 air carrier airports. The methods and assumptions for the deployment analysis of the 20 airports presented in this report are essentially the same as in the initial report. The overall result of the analysis is that by the initial deployment date (1976-1980) of the two alternative surveillance systems, the total potential market will be for 20-25 systems. By the end of the century, the total potential market for ASTC surveillance systems will exceed 30.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also report dated Jan 74, AD-773 699.
• Corporate Authors:

  Mitre Corporation

  Westgate Research Park
  McLean, VA  United States  22101

  Federal Aviation Administration

  Systems R&D Service, 800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States 

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • Bales, R A
  • Koetsch, J F
• Publication Date: 1975-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 115 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control facilities; Airlines; Airport capacity; Airport control towers; Airport operations; Airport runways; Airport surface traffic control; Airports; Analysis; Aviation safety; Benefits; Costs; Deployment; Information display systems; Plan position indicators; Radar; Search radar; Surveillance; Taxiways; Terminal air traffic control; Traffic; Visibility; Weather
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airspace capacity; Cost analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Air traffic control terminal; Airport radar systems
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092175
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FAA-RD-75-51 Final Rpt
• Contract Numbers: DOT/TSC-RA-73-11
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 18 1981 12:00AM