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Solvency Contention-EfficiencyNext gen massively boosts efficiency NASA 2012 “8 Questions about NextGen, Part 1: How We'll Get Where We're Going Tomorrow” http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/8q_nextgen.html The United States is undertaking the largest transformation of air traffic control ever attempted. Known as the Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, it is a multi-billion-dollar technology modernization effort that will make air travel safer, more flexible and more efficient. As the system gets better, its capacity will grow and the demand for different types of air transportation – even unmanned aircraft – will increase. More ev-huge relative gains in efficiency Quon 2012 Leighton Quon, project manager of NextGen Systems Analysis, Integration, and Evaluation at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., answers eight questions about what NASA is doing to help improve air transportation for all of us in the future. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/8q_nextgen.html What would be the benefits of an updated air transportation system?  Leighton: NextGen will make air travel more dependable and efficient. In this case, “efficient” means to reduce the resources with less fuel burned, less time taken or even more flights in a given time. It will provide improvements to how air traffic is managed, saving fuel and reducing noise, emissions, congestion and delays.
Next gen substantially reduces bottlenecks in US air traffic Newsday June 10, 2012. Put Nextgen air traffic control at MacArthur. A long-awaited advance in technology promises to reduce costly air travel delays across the nation. But it shouldn't mean moving hundreds of high-paying air traffic control jobs off Long Island. That could be the unhappy result when federal aviation officials decide early next year where in the New York City region the nation's first next-generation, satellite-based air traffic control facility will be. There's a strong case for locating it on Long Island, and our congressional delegation and U.S. senators are aggressively pressing federal officials to do so. But a number of potential sites on Long Island are being bandied about -- including a parcel in Selden owned by Suffolk Community College and even the Hub in central Nassau County. That lack of focus could weaken the area's pitch. Long Island officials should get behind one site. MacArthur Airport in Islip appears to fit the bill nicely. The NextGen control system is the Federal Aviation Administration's answer to frequent flight delays at New York City-area airports, a bottleneck responsible for many of the air travel delays nationwide. The global positioning satellite-based system will replace antiquated radar-based air traffic control, providing more precise information to controllers and pilots. That will enable planes to fly closer to one another and take off and land with less separation in time and space.
Solvency Contention-Airport CapacityNext gen enhances airport capacity relieving congestion pressures Monte Whaley, 6/25/2012 (Denver airports will benefit from new takeoff and landing technology, http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_20936372/denver-airports-will-benefit-from-new-takeoff-and) New GPS-like technology to help airplane operations be more efficient and timely will be the focus of several public hearings this week at area airports. The hearings will focus on the implementation of The Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, and its environmental impacts. NextGen, which uses satellites for navigation for more precise take-offs and landings, will require new routing and procedures around Denver-area airports, the Federal Aviation Administration says. The agency is proposing new routes for Denver International Airport, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield and Centennial Airport in Arapahoe County in a 30-mile radius around all three. The first hearing is Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Rocky Mountain Airport in the Mount Evans Conference Room, 11755 Airport Way. The second hearing is Wednesday at the Denver Marriott South at Park Meadows, 10345 Park Meadows Drive. The third is scheduled Thursday at the Crown Plaza International Airport, 15500 E. 40th Ave. in Denver. The current ground-based air traffic control system can no longer support huge increases in flights and causes delays , say FAA officials. Federal aviation and airline industry officials say NextGen will cut flight delays, reduce carbon emissions, allow more airplanes to fly and save on fuel consumption."We can be more fuel efficient and more predictable," said Aaron Barnett, the FAA's Denver area district manager for air-traffic control. The $42 billion system is expected to be put in place over the next 20 years and help airports like DIA deal with huge hikes in air traffic. Barnett pointed out that when DIA opened in 1995, it recorded 585,000 operations - take offs and landings. Last year, the airport reported 985,000 operations. One components of the NextGen technology is RNP or Required Navigation Performance, which is an on-board system that allows pilots to navigate aircraft to any point in the world using only geographical coordinates, according to the FAA. This helps pilots land in weather conditions that would ordinarily force them to touchdown elsewhere. Barnett said DIA, the 11th-busiest airport in the world, is also one of the world's most reliable. And NextGen will make DIA even more dependable. "This will help us predict our flow even more precisely," Barnett said. More ev NASA 2007 (The Need For Change, http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/docs/nextgen_whitepaper_06_26_07.pdf_) Forecasts indicate a significant increase in demand, ranging from a factor of two to three by 2025.1 However, the current system is already strained and cannot scale to meet this demand. The ensuing shortfall could cost the U.S. billions of dollars annually in lost productivity, increased operational costs, higher fares, and lost value from flights that airlines must eliminate to keep delays to an acceptable minimum. As noted in the recently released National Aeronautics R&D Policy, “Possessing the capability to move goods and people, point-to-point, anywhere in the nation and around the world is essential to advance the local, state, and national economies of the United States.” In short, U.S. competitiveness depends upon an air transportation system that can significantly expand capacity and flexibility, in the presence of weather and other uncertainties, while maintaining safety and protecting the environment. The problem and the path forward were highlighted in a statement by then-Department of Transportation Secretary, Norman Y. Mineta in a January 27, 2004 speech when he stated, “The changes that are coming are too big, too fundamental for incremental adaptations of the infrastructure...we need to modernize and transform our air transportation system – starting right now.” Evolutionary extrapolation of the current system simply cannot get us where we need to go. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 0.75 Mb. Share with your friends:
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