Roughly 3,300 of the public-use airports across the United States have been determined by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to be significant to national air transportation. These airports form a national airport system intended to provide convenient access to air transportation and support important national functions, such as defense, emergency readiness, and postal delivery. These airports are eligible to receive federal Federal Aviation Administration (AIP) grants to help fund their capital development. Commercial service airports -- if they choose and subject to federal approval -- are also authorised to collect local passenger facility charges (PFC) from passengers, which are also used to fund capital development projects. This book discusses how much national system airports received in funding for capital development projects from 2009 through 2013 and from which sources; the estimated costs of airports' planned capital development from 2015 through 2019; how past funding levels compare with planned development costs; and how changes to AIP funding and the maximum allowable PFC might affect airport funding.

Roughly 3,300 of the public-use airports across the United States have been determined by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to be significant to national air transportation. These airports form a national airport system intended to provide convenient access to air transportation and support important national functions, such as defense, emergency readiness, and postal delivery. These airports are eligible to receive federal Federal Aviation Administration (AIP) grants to help fund their capital development. Commercial service airports--if they choose and subject to federal approval--are also authorized to collect local passenger facility charges (PFC) from passengers, which are also used to fund capital development projects. This book discusses how much national system airports received in funding for capital development projects from 2009 through 2013 and from which sources; the estimated costs of airports' planned capital development from 2015 through 2019; how past funding levels compare with planned development costs; and how changes to AIP funding and the maximum allowable PFC might affect airport funding.

Roughly 3,300 of the public use airports across the U.S. have been determined by the FAA to be significant to national air transportation. They form a national airport system intended to provide convenient access to air transportation and support important national functions, such as defense, emergency readiness, and postal delivery. These airports are eligible to receive federal Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants to help fund their capital development. They might also collect local passenger facility charges (PFCs) from passengers. This report discusses (1) how much national system airports received in funding for capital development projects from 2009 to 2013 and from which sources; (2) the estimated costs of airports' planned capital development from 2015 through 2019; (3) how past funding levels compare with planned development costs; and (4) how changes to AIP funding and the maximum allowable PFC might affect airport funding. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.

At the core of the logic of this book is that states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. By positioning infrastructure as a system, there is a presumption that all infrastructures exhibit some degree of mutual dependence. As such, a National Infrastructure System (NIS) is not simply about conventional conceptions of infrastructure based on those that support economic activity (i.e. energy, transport and information) but also about broader hard and soft structures that both enable and are supported by the aforementioned economic infrastructures. Consequently, this book offers an ambitious holistic view on the form of NIS arguing that the infrastructural mandate requires a conception of the state that encapsulates themes from both the competition and the welfare states in infrastructure provision.

"Roughly 3,300 of the public-use airports across the United States have been determined by FAA to be significant to national air transportation. These airports form a national airport system intended to provide convenient access to air transportation and support important national functions, such as defense, emergency readiness, and postal delivery. These airports are eligible to receive federal AIP grants to help fund their capital development. Commercial service airports--if they choose and subject to federal approval--are also authorized to collect local PFCs from passengers, which are also used to fund capital development projects. GAO was asked to provide information about airport infrastructure plans and funding. This report discusses (1) how much national system airports received in funding for capital development projects from 2009 through 2013 and from which sources, (2) the estimated costs of airports' planned capital development from 2015 through 2019, (3) how past funding levels compare with planned development costs, and (4) how changes to AIP funding and the maximum allowable PFC might affect airport funding. GAO analyzed funding data and conducted a survey of state aviation officials, examined reports on airports' development plans, assessed changes included in the President's fiscal year 2016 budget proposal, and interviewed FAA officials, industry representatives, airport financial-consulting firms, and bond-rating agencies. GAO is not making any recommendations in this report. FAA reviewed a draft of this report and provided technical comments."--Highlights page.

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. US Airports Handbook: Regulations and Business Opportunities

Infrastructure represents the core underpinning architecture of the global economic system. Adopting an approach informed by realism, this insightful book looks at the forces for the integration and fragmentation of the global infrastructure system. The authors undertake a thorough examination of the main internationalised infrastructure sectors: energy, transport and information. They argue that the global infrastructure system is a network of national systems and that state strategies exert powerful forces upon the form and function of this system.