Automation, Weather Will Influence Future Airport Designs
With sequestration and a government shutdown looming last month, U.S. airport officials kept their focus on their major goals: increasing passenger facility charges (PFCs) for airport construction and garnering public support for Next Generation satellite-based technology for air traffic control.
At their annual meeting, held late last month in San Jose, Calif., members of Airports Council International-North America fretted over the possibility that the shutdown might usher in a repeat dip into the Airport Improvement Program, which is meant to fund improvements at small airports. This spring, $253 million came out of AIP to roll back air-traffic-control furloughs.