Next Generation Air Transportation System Integrated Plan

Ensure worldwide integrity of transportation security safeguards
by actively promoting international cooperation.
• Identify and standardize requirements for security, public
health, and identification of passengers and cargo
• Minimize health and security risks within the global
transportation sector
• Conduct on-going comprehensive vulnerability assessments
• Assist other countries in achieving a minimum aviation security
standard for flights arriving in or departing from U.S. airspace
Cross-strategy Linkage
This IPT will coordinate its work with the following IPTs to fulfill
its mission:
• Establish an Agile Air Traffic System
• Establish User-specific Situational Awareness
• Harmonize Equipage and Operations Globally
• Develop Environmental Protection that Allows Sustained
Economic Growth
• Establish a Comprehensive Proactive Safety Management
Approach
7.3 Establish an Agile Air Traffic System
Establish an agile air traffic system that accommodates future
requirements and readily responds to shifts in demand from all
users. The system will be responsive to market elasticity, have the
flexibility to deliver capacity and efficiency improvements, and
ensure that equipment and personnel are able to support a wide
range and number of operations tailored to customer needs.
Tie into Objectives
• Accommodate future growth in demand
• Increase the speed and predictability of air travel
• Enable transparent military and space vehicle operation
• Improve resilience to system perturbations, including those
caused by weather conditions
• Accommodate new types of vehicles
IPT Mission
• Develop a system capable of maximizing airspace and landing/
departure capacities to efficiently and effectively satisfy marketdriven
demands
• Develop and deploy new technologies and establish policies
and procedures that promote capacity growth and increased
efficiency
• Enable deployments to occur throughout the transformational
process
• Employ a right-sized approach, redefining roles and
responsibilities to ensure a system that is affordable and
scalable to varying levels of demand
• Establish basis for seamless airspace allocation
• Align resources for research, development, and deployment of
transformational technologies, policies and procedures
Transformation Direction
• Transition to an end-to-end traffic flow management schema:
- Control by exception
- Distribute decision-making processes thus decreasing
transaction burdens
• Create a more optimal allocation of functions between
automation and humans and between ground and air vehicles,
to cost-effectively and safely deliver reliable and robust air traffic
services
• Transition to a system with less dependence on ground
infrastructure and facilities that are more scalable to varying levels
of user demand
• Improve use of existing capacity and airspace:
- Provide more routine operations in adverse weather
conditions, achieving visual meteorological conditions
operational performance in instrument meteorological
conditions
- Provide routine, reliable access to the airspace system by
new vehicle types such as UAVs, microjets, and single-pilot
aircraft
- Provide strategic negotiation for priority uses that balance
transportation benefits, equity of access, and national
security requirements
• Create global interoperable communications, navigation, and
surveillance infrastructure that can function reliably within
available spectrum
• Achieve better context-relevant information formats and
distribution methods for aircraft operators, air traffic service
providers, airports, and transportation service users:
- Provide 4-D flight path prediction
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