COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS

A cost-effectiveness method that can help make air traffic control (ATC) system improvement decisions has been developed for use in making decisions among alternatives when different groups with conflicting objectives are involved. In this study, the choice of the measures of effectiveness and the development of the method make the use of the method possible by every interested group. All the measures of effectiveness are nondimensional so that all factors, tangible or intangible, can be included in the analysis; a weighting scheme is employed to incorporate the relative importance of objectives into the decision-making. After a decision has been reached within each group, the groups, under certain conditions, can arrive at a final decision by using the compromised suboptimization technique developed. Theoretical consideration of the problem resulted in a simple method for practical applications. An example is included to illustrate the application to ATC improvement of within-group decision-making. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • Yu, Jason C
  • Ulusoy, Ahmet G
• Conference:
  • 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia
  • Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 24-37
• Monograph Title: Air travel and aviation facilities planning
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 529
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Cost effectiveness; Decision making; Economics; Mathematical models; Measurement; Transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163595
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309023769
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM