Air Traffic Control

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Research conducted by: RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment; RAND Project AIR FORCE

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Modernizing the Mobility Air Force for Tomorrow's Air Traffic Management System — Dec 6, 2012

Building on RAND work examining the cost-effectiveness of modernizing the U.S. Air Force's KC-10 aerial refueling tanker to comply with airspace modernization mandates, this study extended the analysis to the C-5, C-17, C-130, and KC-135 fleets.

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Preserving Range and Airspace Access for the Air Force Mission: Striving for a Strategic Vantage Point — May 17, 2011

Air Force range managers schedule the infrastructure and airspace needed for realistic testing and training activities, which requires adequate information about the proposed maneuvers, the acceptable context, and understanding of the goals.

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Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Modernizing the KC-10 to Meet Global Air Traffic Management Mandates — Oct 14, 2009

Without modernization, the U.S. Air Force's KC-10 air refueling fleet will not be in compliance with upcoming worldwide air traffic mandates. An analysis of the cost-effectiveness of the required KC-10 upgrades revealed a net cost avoidance.

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Safety in the Skies: Personnel and Parties in NTSB Aviation Accident Investigations — Jan 1, 2000

In this report, RAND outlines a comprehensive set of recommendations intended to help the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) strengthen the party process, create a more expansive statement of causation, modernize investigative procedures, streamline internal operating procedures, better manage resources, maintain a strategic view of staffing, streamline training practices, improve facilities for engineering and training.

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Managing Safety In and Around Airports — Jan 1, 1995

Reports the results of a November 1994 conference held by RAND in Amsterdam, which brought together experts and stakeholders from different countries to identify key airport safety policy challenges and to discuss possible solutions.

Research Brief

A Policy Direction for the Global Positioning System: Balancing National Security and Commercial Interests — Jan 1, 1995

The evolution of GPS into an information system with a substantial international user community has raised complex policy questions for U.S. decisionmakers on a variety of issues affecting national defense, commerce, and foreign policy.

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Distributed Problem Solving for Air Fleet Control: Framework and Implementations — Jan 1, 1992

This Note describes the development of a framework for implementation of multiple cooperative agents.

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Strategies of Cooperation in Distributed Problem Solving — Jan 1, 1983

Results of an experimental investigation of techniques for distributed problem solving.

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Scenarios for Evolution of Air Traffic Control — Jan 1, 1981

Human roles, technical issues, and economic implications for each scenario are discussed, leading to the conclusion that human skills are an integral part of the ATC system and should be retained but extended via the Shared Control scenario.

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Cost Comparisons of Advanced Air Traffic Management Systems. — Jan 1, 1973

Cost Comparisons of Advanced Air Traffic Management Systems.

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Some User Benefits Achievable from an Advanced Air Traffic Management System. — Jan 1, 1973

Some User Benefits Achievable from an Advanced Air Traffic Management System.

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An identification system for use as an aid to raid detection and air traffic control. — Jan 1, 1958

A proposed new identification system in which all U.S. aircraft and all ZI penetrating aircraft would be required to carry a transmitter emitting altitude and ID information. This system would enable ground stations to obtain full position informatio...

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Associate Operations Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in civil engineering, University of California, Berkeley; M.S. in operations research, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in math, Johns Hopkins University

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Kenneth Kuhn is an associate operations researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research focuses on asset management, transportation system operations, and logistics. Kuhn's technical training is in optimization, statistics (particularly…

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