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Airport System Capacity
TRB Special Report 226 - Airport System Capacity: Strategic Choices examines solutions to congestion and delay and mechanisms to stimulate and ensure adequate capacity.
As with other infrastructure assets, the federal government provides substantial funding for airports, but decisions about siting, expanding, building, and operating the facilities are made at the state and local levels. The committee that addressed this issue concluded that a combination of remedies is required, including financing of incremental expansions at crowded airports, improvements in techniques and technologies for managing air traffic control, support for advanced aircraft designs better optimized for passenger flows and the physical constraints of airports, incorporation of noise mitigation in aircraft designs and flight patterns, and support for alternative high-speed modes in appropriate markets.
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