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A Simulation Game Application for Improving the United States’ Next Generation Air Transportation System NextGen

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Game Theoretic Analysis of Congestion, Safety and Security

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Societies around the world depend on the proper functioning of various infrastructures. However, changes in technology, societal needs/expectations, political shifts, and environmental concerns cause infrastructure systems to underperform (i.e., congestion, energy shortage, air transportation delays, etc.). In order to accurately plan the next generation infrastructure systems, understanding the interactions between technical, political, and economic factors as well as stakeholders are of paramount importance. The current research pursued the development and deployment of a simulation game which aimed to serve as a venue to generate and evaluate data for next generation infrastructure development efforts. The problem domain was selected as the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) transition environment. The complex and stakeholder-rich environment of NextGen provided an accurate test-bed for the sociotechnical system transformation, highlighting the interaction of variables like system capacity, safety, public demand, and stakeholder behavior with diverging agendas under various world scenarios.

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Notes

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    Airports considered in the calculation include Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (ATL), Chicago O’Hare (ORF), Los Angeles (LAX), Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), Denver (DEN), John F. Kennedy (JFK), George Bush Intercontinental-Houston (IAH), and Las Vegas-McCarran International (LAS).

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    At the time of writing, the selected ten airline companies (Delta, Southwest, United, U.S., Northwest, JetBlue, Continental, American, Alaska, and Airtran) represented around 70 % of all NAS enplanements in the domestic market.

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    http://www.transtats.bts.gov/, Retrieved July 3rd, 2014.

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    http://cats.airports.faa.gov/Reports/reports.cfm, Retrieved July 3rd, 2014.

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    The RRAM was developed based on hazardous material handling, storage, processing, and transportation study conducted by a United Nations joint consortium [20].

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    http://www.amtrak.com/home, Retrieved July 3rd, 2014.

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The authors would like to thank the Subject Matter Experts at System Analysis and Concepts Directorate (SACD) at NASA Langley Research Center for their guidance with the development and execution of the gaming exercise. The authors thank the editor for aid with Sect. 4.

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Ancel, E., Gheorghe, A. (2015). A Simulation Game Application for Improving the United States’ Next Generation Air Transportation System NextGen. In: Hausken, K., Zhuang, J. (eds) Game Theoretic Analysis of Congestion, Safety and Security. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13009-5_8

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