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Air Traffic Control Reform News #93

How to implement “Best-Equipped/Best Served” | Two steps forward for RNP | Getting GPS backup onto the national agenda | Creating a supportive culture for NextGen | News Notes | Quotable Quote

May 21, 2012

Robert Poole

In this issue:

• How to implement “Best-Equipped/Best Served”
• Two steps forward for RNP
• Getting GPS backup onto the national agenda
• Creating a supportive culture for NextGen
• News Notes
• Quotable Quotes

Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Renaissance Continuing in 2012

May 15, 2012, 4:40pm

Leonard Gilroy

Puerto Rico emerged as a leader in attracting private investment in public infrastructure in 2011, with projects undertaken or underway that include a modernization of 100 K-12 schools, a $1.5 billion toll road lease and an ongoing procurement for a long-term lease of San Juan's international airport. Momentum continues in 2012.

Puerto Rico Building Robust Infrastructure Privatization Program

Puerto Rico advanced public-private partnerships in schools, highways and aviation in 2011

May 15, 2012

Leonard Gilroy

In two short years, the administration of Governor Luis Fortuño has turned Puerto Rico into a privatization leader among its state peers. To address the territory's chronic deficits and unsustainable debt, the administration has advanced a range of reforms that include major spending reductions, optimization of government operations and the enactment of a new law in 2009 inviting private investors to modernize or develop new infrastructure across a variety of sectors.

Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #79

Privatized cargo airport, passenger record sharing and potential high-speed rail competition for aviation

May 8, 2012

Robert Poole

• Airglades proposes privatized cargo airport
• E.U. finally OKs passenger record sharing
• Airport privatization news from Europe
• Potential high-speed rail competition for aviation
• TSA making progress with PreCheck
• Assessing Kip Hawley’s new book
• News Notes
• Quotable Quotes

 

Annual Privatization Report 2011

Privatization trends in local, state and federal government, plus roads, highways, aviation, education and telecom

May 1, 2012

Leonard Gilroy, Harris Kenny

Now in its 25th year of publication, Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report is the world's longest running and most comprehensive report on privatization news, developments and trends.

Annual Privatization Report 2011 (APR 2011) details the latest on privatization and government reform initiatives at all levels of government. The individual sections of APR 2011 include:

• Federal Privatization
• State Privatization
• Local Privatization
• Air Transportation
• Surface Transportation
• Education
• Telecommunications
• Corrections and Public Safety

Privatization of Airports, Air Traffic Control and Airport Security

Aviation Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011

May 1, 2012

Robert Poole

This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2011 provides a comprehensive overview of the latest news on domestic and international airport privatization and the privatization of airport security. Topics include:

• In the aftermath of the credit markets crunch of 2008–2009, the airport market continued its recovery in 2011, with efforts including Puerto Rico's current plan to privatize San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport and Chicago's continued interest in a potential Midway Airport lease.
• A total of 48% of European air passengers were handled by partly or fully privatized airports in 2011, with that share likely to grow with impending privatization initiatives in Spain and Greece.
• Amid public outrage over TSA’s introduction of body scanners and aggressive pat-downs, the administration and Congress continued to battle over proposals to allow airports to opt-out of TSA security and hire private screeners. However, some progress was made in Washington D.C. over reviving the trusted traveler program, advancing a more risk-based approach to security.
• Since 1990, 51 governments have commercialized their air traffic control systems, separating the air traffic control functions from regulatory bodies, removing them from civil service, and making them self-supporting from fees charged to aircraft operators. However, there was no significant progress in 2011 toward commercializing air traffic control in the United States.
• Other more news on domestic and international airport privatization and air traffic control commercialization.

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