A New Approach to Measuring the Effect of Weather on NAS Performance

摘要

Identifying a methodology for measuring how well airport improvements help to achieve VMC-like operations under IMC is just a first step. For example, the saturation throughput methodology developed in this study can be applied to multiple airport or airspace improvement scenarios to compare the effectiveness of an enhancement across airports. Other potential applications for this methodology include analyzing the NAS-wide impacts of technology, procedure or infrastructure improvements; understanding seasonal variations in performance at one or multiple airports; and prospectively evaluating the potential benefits of future planned NAS enhancements.