BRITAIN PLANS $1-BILLION UPGRADE OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM

The British National Air Traffic Service plans to spend more than $1 billion over the coming decade to meet an anticipated 32% growth in the demand for air traffic services by the year 2000. Virtually all of this growth will come from increased airline operations and an increasing reliance by business aircraft operators on the use of controlled airspace. The peak-period demand will increase and become increasingly constrained by runway capacity. Another problem will be the increasingly diverse mix of aircraft. A major change in airspace management will be an increasing reliance on airspace sharing by users with different requirements, primarily military and civil. Thus, coupled with its program for modernizing the existing air traffic control system, the British National Air Traffic Service will conduct a comprehensive research evaluation and analysis to increase system capacity.

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• Publication Date: 1988-11-21

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 71
• Serial:
  • Aviation Week & Space Technology
  • Volume: 129
  • Issue Number: 21
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0005-2175

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Airport runways; Airspace; Demand; Legal airspace; Peak periods; Urban growth
• Uncontrolled Terms: Aircraft mix; Capacity; Sharing
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00478007
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 1988 12:00AM