Economic Analysis of Local Area Augmentation System and Alternative Architectures

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• Creators:
  Prabhakar, Anand S.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. National Technical Information Service ; Federal Aviation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air traffic control
  • Airports
  • Cost effectiveness
  • Instrument landing systems
  • Landing aids
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • GPS (Global Positioning System)
  • Local area augmentation system
  • Instrument landing system
  • Runway visual range
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-VNTSC-RSPA-96-01 ; FAA/SD400-96/1 ; PB96-172697
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Special Programs Administration
• Description:
  The objective of this study has been to perform an economic comparison by conducting a cost-benefit analsyis (CBA) of the five Local Area Augementation System (LAAS) and alternative architectures. The five architectures chosen by the FAA for the study are: Pseudolite kinematic LAAS, Wide-Lane Kinematic LAAS, Code-Based LAAS, Instrucment Landing System (ILS), and the LAAS-Glide Slope System. A comparison of archhitecture based on the benefit/cost (B/C) ratio and cost-effectiveness criterion indicates that the Code-based LAAS architecture has, by far,the highest B/C ratio of 4.0 and the lowest life-cycle cost of $860.9 million over a 15 year time horizon. The B/C ratios of other non-ILS architectures are in the range of 3.4 to 3.7, and the life cycle costs in the range of $946.5 milliono to $1,014.6 million. For the reference ILS architecture, the study estimates a low B/C ratio of 0.4 and the life cycle cost of $921.2 million. The latter cost is not much different from other architecture life cycle, despite the exclusion of the substantial sunk cost of existing runway ILS and aircraft avionics equipment.
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10888/dot_10888_DS1.pdf
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• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
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  urn:sha256:1acb8a9d1e5c7c5be741ea6086059b65545fe3fe0c4fb81427cf7923d0889698