Number: RL34284
Title: Aviation Congestion and Delay: System-Wide and New York-Area Issues
Authors: Bart Elias and John W. Fischer, Resources, Science, and Industry Division; Todd B. Tatelman, American Law Division 
Abstract: This report discusses the causes of congestion and delay in the current context. It also discusses some technological and administrative mechanisms that might be employed to mitigate these problems. This discussion is followed by an overview of demand management (economic) remedies to congestion as they might be applied in an airport/airspace environment, and discusses the rather limited historical experience with the use of these mechanisms. Finally, the report concludes with a legal overview of how specific congestion remedies, in particular those involving aviation system pricing, might be applied and administered.
Pages: 36
Date: December 14, 2007