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The Integrated Air Transportation System Evaluation ToolThroughout U.S. history, our nation has generally enjoyed exceptional economic growth, driven in part by transportation advancements. Looking forward 25 years, when the national highway and skyway systems are saturated, the nation faces new challenges in creating transportation-driven economic growth and wealth. To meet the national requirement for an improved air traffic management system, NASA developed the goal of tripling throughput over the next 20 years, in all weather conditions while maintaining safety. Analysis of the throughput goal has primarily focused on major airline operations, primarily through the hub and spoke system.However, many suggested concepts to increase throughput may operate outside the hub and spoke system. Examples of such concepts include the Small Aircraft Transportation System, civil tiltrotor, and improved rotorcraft. Proper assessment of the potential contribution of these technologies to the domestic air transportation system requires a modeling capability that includes the country's numerous smaller airports, acting as a fundamental component of the National Air space System, and the demand for such concepts and technologies. Under this task for NASA, the Logistics Management Institute developed higher fidelity demand models that capture the interdependence of short-haul air travel with other transportation modes and explicitly consider the costs of commercial air and other transport modes. To accomplish this work, we generated forecasts of the distribution of general aviation based aircraft and GA itinerant operations at each of nearly 3.000 airport based on changes in economic conditions and demographic trends. We also built modules that estimate the demand for travel by different modes, particularly auto, commercial air, and GA. We examined GA demand from two perspectives: top-down and bottom-up, described in detail.
Document ID
20020094349
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Wingrove, Earl R., III (Logistics Management Inst. McLean, VA United States)
Hees, Jing (Logistics Management Inst. McLean, VA United States)
Villani, James A. (Logistics Management Inst. McLean, VA United States)
Yackovetsky, Robert E.
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 2002
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:211961
LMI-NA104
NASA/CR-2002-211961
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS2-14361
PROJECT: RTOP 727-04-20-01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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