Innovative Approaches to Addressing Aviation Capacity Issues in Coastal Mega-Regions. ACRP Report 31

摘要

A major study undertaken by the FAA, known as the FACT 2 Report (1), suggested that the nations airports will be able to provide for adequate aviation capacity in the United States to the year 2025, except for two major areas on the East and West Coasts. As noted in the Project Statement: FACT 2 indicates metropolitan areas and regions along the east and west coasts are experiencing large amounts of growth in population and economic activity that demonstrate chronic congestion problems in the air and on the ground. Based on the FACT 2 information, conditions in these two coastal mega-regions are projected to get worse in the future. Traditional approaches are unlikely to address these problems that extend beyond current jurisdictional and legislative authorities of existing agencies. (2) ACRP Report 31: Innovative Approaches to Addressing Aviation Capacity Issues in Coastal Mega-regions was created to examine the nature of the problem of addressing aviation capacity issues in the two coastal mega-regions.