{"id":25654,"date":"2023-05-23T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=25654"},"modified":"2023-05-23T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:52:00","slug":"faa-invests-over-100m-to-reduce-runway-incursions-at-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/faa-invests-over-100m-to-reduce-runway-incursions-at-airports\/%20","title":{"rendered":"FAA Invests Over $100M to Reduce Runway Incursions at Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded more than\n$100 million to 12 airports across the country to reduce runway incursions.\nProjects will reconfigure taxiways that may cause confusion, install airfield\nlighting or construct new taxiways to provide more flexibility on the airfield.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some airfields have complex layouts that can create\nconfusion for pilots and other airport users. This funding will reconfigure\ncomplex taxiway and runway intersections to help prevent incursions and enhance\nthe safety of the National Airspace System,&#8221; said FAA Associate\nAdministrator Shannetta R. Griffin, P.E. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/airport-safety-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25655\" width=\"352\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/airport-safety-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/airport-safety-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><figcaption><em>FAA photo by Jacob Kang.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/airports\/engineering\/incursions_excursions\/rim\">Runway Incursion Mitigation Program<\/a> was developed to identify airports that have risk factors that might contribute to runway incursions. Those factors include complexity and airfield layout. As part of the RIM program, the FAA, airports and industry work together to find solutions and share best practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding is going to key projects, including: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Miami International Airport: $6 million to shift\none taxiway (L1) and fix the intersection of two other taxiways (M &amp; Q). <\/li><li>Harry Reid International Airport: $13.4 million\nto reconfigure four taxiways (U, E, F and H) to meet safety standards, shift\ntwo runways (8L\/26R and 1L\/19R) and install runway status and guard lights.\nRunway status lights alert pilots and others if it is not safe to enter the\nrunway. <\/li><li>San Diego International Airport: $24 million to\nconstruct a new taxiway (A), eliminating the need for aircraft to back-taxi on\nthe runway.<\/li><li>Tucson International Airport: $33.1 million to\nconstruct a taxiway (C) and shift and rebuild runway (11R\/29L) to be further\naway from a parallel runway. <\/li><li>Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport:\n$10.8 million to build a taxiway (V) to provide more direct access to aircraft\nhangars. <\/li><li>Pensacola International Airport: $1.17 million\nto install runway guard lights for Runways 8\/26 and 17\/35 to address safety\nissues identified by a Runway Safety Action Team. <\/li><li>Prescott International Airport in Prescott,\nAriz.: $7.4 million to shift a taxiway (C) 75 feet east. <\/li><li>Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield,\nIll.: $7.4 million to remove portions of Runway 18 and Runway 36 and extend a\ntaxiway (G) to maintain access to the existing north apron.<\/li><li>Bellingham International Airport in Bellingham,\nWash.: $1.3 million to reconfigure a connecting taxiway (F) from its current\nairfield location to a new midfield connector. <\/li><li>Republic Airport in East Farmingdale, N.Y.:\n$12.4 million to reconstruct a taxiway (A), add a taxiway edge lighting system\nand replace existing airfield guidance signs. <\/li><li>Waverly Municipal Airport in Waverly, Iowa:\n$223,000 to construct a parallel taxiway from the Runway 11 turnaround to the\napron, eliminating the need for aircraft to back-taxi on the runway.<\/li><li>Charles B Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas\nCity, Kan.: $844,000 for two parallel taxiways (L and D) to Runway 3 to\neliminate the need for aircraft to back-taxi on the runway. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, the FAA held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/newsroom\/readout-faa-aviation-safety-summit-breakout-panels\">Safety Summit<\/a> to address recent incidents. The summit brought together leaders from across the aviation sector, including airlines, flight and ground crews, and air traffic control, to find potential causes and needed actions to uphold safety. Read more about the summit and actions the agency has taken since then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the Safety Summit, in April, U.S. Transportation\nSec. Buttigieg went on an airport safety tour to highlight airport projects in\nNorth Carolina, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma that received federal funding to\nimprove airfield safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAA has introduced several runway safety technologies to\nprovide pilots and controllers increased situational awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/air_traffic\/technology\/rwsl\/\">Runway Status Lights<\/a>: The in-pavement lights alert pilots that entering a runway is unsafe due to other traffic on or approaching the runway. <\/li><li>Airport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/air_traffic\/technology\/asde-x\">Surface Detection<\/a> Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X): A surveillance system using radar, multilateration and satellite technology that allows air traffic controllers to track surface movement of aircraft and vehicles. It or its sister system, Airport Surface Surveillance Capability, is located at the country\u2019s 43 largest airports. <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/faa\/faa-upgrades-wrong-surface-alert-technology-6041988dce6e\">ASDE-X<\/a> Taxiway Arrival Prediction: Predicts when a pilot lines up to land on a taxiway and provides a visual and audible alert to controllers.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded more than $100 million to 12 airports across the country to reduce runway incursions. Projects will reconfigure taxiways that may cause confusion, install airfield lighting or construct new taxiways to provide more flexibility on the airfield. &#8220;Some airfields have complex layouts that can create confusion for pilots and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25658,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654\/revisions\/25658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}