Low-Cost Technology to Improve Aviation Safety and Efficiency : Investment Program Brings Modernized Aviation Information Technology to Pacific Islands
The World Bank’s Pacific Aviation Investment Program (PAIP) is bringing state-of-the-art air traffic management and satellite-based ground communications to airports and small aircraft operators in seven Pacific island countries and territories. Th...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/172501488864629403/Low-cost-technology-to-improve-aviation-safety-and-efficiency-investment-program-brings-modernized-aviation-information-technology-to-Pacific-islands http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26298 |
| Summary: | The World Bank’s Pacific Aviation
Investment Program (PAIP) is bringing state-of-the-art air
traffic management and satellite-based ground communications
to airports and small aircraft operators in seven Pacific
island countries and territories. These advances, coming
online in 2017, will vastly improve the safety and
efficiency of South Pacific aviation and further its global
integration. The air traffic surveillance equipment, known
as ADS-B, surpasses the abilities of radar to locate
aircraft en route and does so at one-tenth the cost. ADS-B
increases the safety of flying and improves search and
rescue operations; it also enables more efficient flight
routing, which saves fuel and reduces greenhouse gases. The
installation of the surveillance equipment at ground
stations in five Pacific island countries, Kiribati, Samoa,
Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu, and in smaller aircraft will
significantly broaden the coverage of aviation activity
across the region. A new satellite-based ground-to-ground
communications network will link those five countries plus
Cook Islands and Niue. The network will be resistant to
natural disasters, thus improving emergency preparedness and
response. More broadly, strengthening aviation-related
communications in the Pacific will help integrate the
Asia-Pacific region with global developments in air traffic
information systems. |
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