Author: Ruth A. MacFarlane HunterPublisher:
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Category : Air traffic control
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
"The goal of this study is to provide FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] AST [Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation] with technical support in formulating effective policies and regulations that address issues associated with the air traffic management (ATM) of commercially-operated, suborbital PTP transportation focused on the long distance delivery of both humans and crago. The Volpe Center examined the issues associated with integrating PTP Systems into the NAS [National Airspace] and international airspace by: [1] Identifying institutional, operational, and technical issues that must be addressed for launching and operating either supersonic or hypersonic point-to-point (PTP) systems in or through the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS) and betwween international/transcontinental city pairs. This report does not address PTP economic issues. [2] Prioritizing the issues, ranking them from 'most challenging' to 'least challenging, ' and explaining the rationale for the issue ranking. [3] Providing and prioritizing insights into path forward to resolves the issues."--Objectives (p. 1).