Air Traffic Control: Surveillance Radar Request for the Cherry Capital Airport

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• Creators:
  Anderson, John H. Jr.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Air Traffic Control Facilities Air Traffic Projections Benefit Cost Analysis Cherry Capital Airport Cost-effectiveness Criteria Decision Making Radar Surveillance Radar Traverse City (Michigan)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO/RCED-98-118
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1404030
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Michigan ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Abstract:
  In 1994, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) received requests to install an airport surveillance radar at the Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City, Michigan. In response to the requests, FAA assessed the benefits and costs of installing a surveillance radar at the airport. Initially, in 1994, on the basis of a benefit-cost study, the airport qualified for a radar; however, the results of benefit-cost studies conducted in 1996 and 1997 showed that the airport did not qualify for a radar, and therefore, it has not received a radar to date.
  
  The General Accounting Office performed a detailed review of the benefit-cost studies that FAA conducted for the Cherry Capital Airport in 1994, 1996, and 1997. Specifically, this report discusses (1) FAA's decision-making process for installing surveillance radars at airports; (2) the factors, including costs, benefits, and air traffic projections, that FAA considered when conducting the 1994, 1996, and 1997 studies; (3) the impact, if any, that air traffic
  
  projections developed by other sources would have had on the results of the 1997 study; (4) actions FAA has taken to address safety concerns at the airport; and (5) FAA's plans to replace surveillance radars at airports with fewer total air traffic operations than the Cherry Capital Airport.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c31a6b2ce439196a1d9a4f7e02271dedcceb39134eff1eced40ddaa70273a5b75e8718d64cd87ce7c1ac6432b2d2d77470c7aadabdb08199e7b09319509d6b16
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12540/dot_12540_DS1.pdf
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