As anyone who has ever tried to explain NextGen to friends or family knows, it’s not always easy to communicate NAS capacity issues to a lay audience.
I’ve gotten interested in how information graphics and rich web scripting tools can help make some of these concepts more approachable. Here’s my first experiment, a simple app that allows you to play with factors that may contribute to capacity needs in 2030.
Move the sliders, and see how the factors affect passenger counts, ATC operations, delays, etc.
