Current Status of Air Traffic Control and Airspace Redesign in New York Metropolitan Area

Abstract

This paper reports the current status of the air traffic control procedures and the airspace redesign project in New York (NY) metropolitan area. In this area, the air travel passengers regularly have severe delay of flights due to the heavy air traffic volume. Therefore they are planning several countermeasures for improving such a situation. The airspace redesign is one of the biggest countermeasures. Currently, NY air traffics are controlled by using the three-dimensional airspace so densely. But the current airspace is still based on the design in 1960s and includes some inefficient systems. The airspace redesign in this time is expected to improve the efficiency of air traffic control procedures. The concepts in this airspace redesign and also in current system are very informative for the air traffic control system in Japan.