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usiness objectives of growth (capacity), efficiency, affordability, and safety, identifying<br />

and accounting for the possible effects of constraints that may limit the achievement of any<br />

particular objective. <strong>The</strong> stakeholders often have competing objectives, and a viable<br />

operational concept will include a reasonable compromise among these objectives to<br />

reduce political risk to system implementation.<br />

A part of this study has included the conduct of a stakeholder survey of future system<br />

needs. This survey is provided as a separate document, NAS Stakeholder Needs. Stakeholders<br />

interviewed were: <strong>Air</strong> Transport Association (ATA), Regional <strong>Air</strong>line Association<br />

(RAA), National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), General Aviation Manufacturers<br />

Association (GAMA), <strong>Air</strong>craft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), Helicopter<br />

Association International (HAI), Department of Defense (DOD), <strong>Air</strong>ports Council<br />

International - North America (ACI-NA), <strong>Air</strong> Line Pilots Association (ALPA), National<br />

<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Traffic</strong> Controllers Association (NATCA), and <strong>Air</strong>line Dispatchers Federation (ADF).<br />

<strong>The</strong> document identifies a wide-ranging number of stakeholder issues. <strong>The</strong>se are grouped<br />

into potential system metrics of capacity, efficiency, safety, affordability, and access and<br />

tallied by number of responses across all the interviewed groups in Figure 2.4.<br />

Capacity<br />

Need Category<br />

Efficiency<br />

Safety<br />

Affordability<br />

Access<br />

0 5 10 15 20 25 30<br />

Tally<br />

Figure 2.4 User Needs Categories<br />

This study has identified relevant industry activities that provide the basis for the<br />

beginnings of the air transportation system mission needs analysis necessary for<br />

establishing system requirements which drive system architecture definition. <strong>The</strong> focus is<br />

on the capacity, safety and efficiency needs, which are the primary focus of the air carrier<br />

segment, but mission needs analysis needs to encompass all of the stakeholders’ high level<br />

objectives and future system needs, as part of the consensus development process.<br />

Affordability is addressed as part of the evaluation phase and discussed in Section 2.3.6,<br />

Transition Planning and Tradeoff Analysis.<br />

American <strong>Air</strong>lines (AA) and Sabre Decision Technologies (SDT) have conducted an NAS<br />

simulation of the air carrier operations for the next twenty years to examine the system<br />

capacity needs over time. <strong>The</strong> simulation study summarized here is documented in the<br />

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