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- Air Traffic Control Newsletter #103
GAO on RNP's slow progress, How cost-effective are ATC providers? and More...
Robert Poole
May 16, 2013 - Congress and the FAA Could Reduce Air Travel Delays and Save Real Money
Hundreds of outdated air traffic centers could be merged and replaced with newer, more efficient setups
Robert Poole
April 25, 2013 - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #102
Backlash over politicized air traffic control funding, user taxes vs. user fees—a big difference
Robert Poole
April 23, 2013 - Air Traffic Control: How to Save Money Without Compromising Services
Tom Clougherty
April 22, 2013, 10:52pm - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #101
The benefits of air traffic control consolidation, Congress holds ATC hostage to budget cuts and lower aviation growth forecast by FAA
Robert Poole
April 3, 2013 - Air Traffic Control Consolidation Would Save Billions
Robert Poole
April 3, 2013, 10:00am - The Case for Air Traffic Control Facility Consolidation
A paradigm shift in air traffic control that will make it possible to manage air traffic from anywhere to anywhere
Michael Harrison, Ira Gershkoff, Gary Church and Robert Poole
April 3, 2013 - Annual Privatization Report 2013
Privatization trends in local, state and federal government, plus roads, highways, aviation, education, telecom and more
Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
April 1, 2013 - Air Traffic Control
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Air Transportation
Robert Poole
April 1, 2013 - Developments in Air Transportation
Annual Privatization Report examines airport, airport security and air traffic control trends in the U.S. and around the world
Robert Poole
April 1, 2013 - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #100
Sequestration and air traffic control, CANSO comes of age, Controller-pilot data link: mixed progress, New approaches to control tower functions
Robert Poole
February 27, 2013 - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #99
Alerting pilots to runway incursions, Airspace cooperation, Air Traffic Organization staffing, European Sky
Robert Poole
January 24, 2013 - How to Reform and Get More Value From Federal Transportation Programs
Robert Poole
January 9, 2013, 1:00pm - Funding Important Transportation Infrastructure In a Fiscally Constrained Environment
Rethinking how America pays for and manages its critically important transportation infrastructure
Robert Poole
January 9, 2013 - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #98
Space-based ADS-B and the FAA ATC billing systems, continued Progress on wake turbulence separation standards Lessons from “zombie towers” Remote towers at large airports
Robert Poole
December 5, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #97
FAA weakness, Single European Sky, Remote towers, Cost-effective radar
Robert Poole
October 26, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #96
ATC productivity, Sequestration, Metroplex initiatives shortcumings, and Reducing GPS vulnerability
Robert Poole
September 25, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #95
More problems for ATC facility consolidation, cyber attacks and NextGen vulnerability
Robert Poole
August 3, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Newsletter #94
Rocky start for U.S. facility consolidation, Assessing required time of arrival, Office of Special Counsel misses the point
Robert Poole
June 26, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Reform News #93
How to implement “Best-Equipped/Best Served”, Getting GPS backup onto the national agenda
Robert Poole
May 21, 2012 - Privatization of Airports, Air Traffic Control and Airport Security
Aviation Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Robert Poole
May 1, 2012 - Annual Privatization Report 2011
Privatization trends in local, state and federal government, plus roads, highways, aviation, education and telecom
Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
May 1, 2012 - The Year 2011 in Surface Transportation and Aviation Privatization
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 26, 2012, 10:53am - Air Traffic Control Reform News #92
Should Passengers Pay for NextGen?, NetJets vs. the IRS
Robert Poole
April 19, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #91
Forecasts even slower ATC growth, ANSP mergers in Europe, Congress’ NextGen mandates
Robert Poole
March 22, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #90
FAA reauthorization, aviation emissions trading war, ATC user fees, Europe's next-generation milestones, ERAM woes and FAA shortcomings
Robert Poole
February 24, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #89
Data Comm moving forward, user fee proposal still with us, new ATC concept from Germany, Spain's ATC reform outsources control towers
Robert Poole
January 23, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #88
Space-based ADS-B, ATC not improving in Europe, Russia agrees to end flyover tax
Robert Poole
December 16, 2011 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #87
Airline ticket tax broken, increased controller errors, little progress on RNP, fully integrated aviation weather
Robert Poole
October 28, 2011 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #86
NextGen modernization held hostage to politics, slow progress for ADS-B, LightSquared even worse than you thought
Robert Poole
August 30, 2011 - FAA Shutdown And Our Air Traffic Control Funding System Are Absurd
Robert Poole
July 28, 2011, 6:15pm - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #85
FAA controller workforce problems, LightSquared GPS fiasco, Datalink for oceanic airspace, Scapegoating business jets (again)
Robert Poole
July 26, 2011 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #84
Deloitte's case for ATC transformation, DOT and blocking business-jet tracking, coordination and decision-making in ATC reform, remote towers going live in three countries, why not ADS-B/In?
Robert Poole
June 24, 2011 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #83
NextGen held hostage by politics, obstacles to facility consolidation in Europe, more on controller fatigue
Robert Poole
May 27, 2011 - Why Air Traffic Controllers Fall Asleep on the Job
They have the last word on their work schedule, including the notorious 2-2-1
Langhorne Bond and Robert Poole
April 29, 2011 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #82
Insufficient controller fatigue decision, Equipage Fund makes progress, SESAR challenges in Europe
Robert Poole
April 26, 2011 - Time to Separate the ATO from FAA Safety Regulation
Shifting air traffic management and aviation safety regulation into two separate and organizationally independent entities
Robert Poole and Langhorne Bond
April 26, 2011 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #81
Lessons from sleeping controller incident, comparing ATC reform performance worldwide, contract towers, concerns over GPS vulnerability
Robert Poole
March 26, 2011 - Sleeping Reagan Air Traffic Controller Shows FAA's Failures
Robert Poole
March 25, 2011, 12:42pm - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #80
Rising air traffic controller errors and air traffic forecast
Robert Poole
February 28, 2011 - New at Reason: Annual Privatization Report 2010
Leonard Gilroy
February 10, 2011, 3:32pm - Privatization of Airports, Air Traffic Control and Airport Security
Aviation Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010
Robert Poole and Leonard Gilroy
February 10, 2011 - Rethinking the FAA Budget
Robert Poole
February 7, 2011, 2:20pm - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #79
January 2011
Robert Poole
January 24, 2011 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #78
November/December 2010
Robert Poole
November 5, 2010 - Airt Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #77
October 2010
Robert Poole
October 29, 2010 - Airt Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #76
September 2010
Robert Poole
September 23, 2010 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #75
July - August 2010
Robert Poole
August 5, 2010 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #74
June 2010
Robert Poole
June 23, 2010 - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #73
May 2010
Robert Poole
May 23, 2010
Featured Research
- The Urgent Need to Reform the FAA's Air Traffic Control System
Policy Study 358 - Business Jets and ATC User Fees
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