Air traffic controllers ensure the safety of almost 1 billion aviation passengers and over 60 million aircrafts each year. The anticipated surge in air traffic across North America is leading to increased acquisition of air traffic management (ATM) systems to provide for improved services in the domestic, oceanic and international airspace. North America has been among the early adopters of digital air-ground communications and satellite navigation based on global positioning systems (GPS) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). In the future also, the markets for ATM systems will witness initiatives to improve the communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) systems segments.

The aviation industry is now recovering following the events of 9/11. In the next ten years, the markets are expected to experience the realization of revolutionary ATM concepts such as satellite navigation and ADS-B in conjunction with digital communication and datalink, along with new automation systems. These technologies are expected to drive revenues, thus transforming civil aviation, as well as overall market dynamics

In addition, the anticipated modernization of automation systems in area control centers (ACC) by air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in the region will lead to a surge in overall revenues, with over half of the total market revenues likely to be generated by the automation/air traffic control (ATC) systems segment.

Airport Innovation will therefore evaluate the latest technological developments in Air Traffic Control, throughout North America and the world, and provide the air traffic controllers and key decision makers with the most relevant and up to date trends, technology, and solutions. The March 2007 issue will include:



Readership and Circulation
Airport innovation will be distributed on a controlled and requested basis every quarter, to an audited circulation of 35,000 decision makers including:

Airport Readership

• Airport CEOs, CFOs, CIO's, CMOs
• Airport Presidents and VPs
• Operations Directors/VPs
• Heads of Safety and Security
• Purchasing and Procurement Directors
• Technical Directors
• Facilities and Maintenance managers

ATC Readership
Tower Controllers, Terminal Radar Approach Controllers, En Route Center Controllers, Air Traffic Control Analyst, Air Traffic Management Trainer, Heads of Area Control Centers (ACC), Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs)

Basil Barimo was named vice president of operations and safety in December 2003. Previously, he served as vice president of Avborne, Inc., a maintenance, repair and overhaul service provider based in Miami.

Prior to Avborne, Barimo spent 13 years at US Airways. He joined the airline in 1989 as a senior engineer and held a variety of positions before being named senior director, maintenance quality assurance in 1999. Previously, he was employed as an engineer scientist at McDonnell Douglas.

A native of Miami, Barimo holds a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Robert Poole is director of transportation studies at Reason Foundation (www.reason.org), a free market think tank he founded. Poole, an MIT-trained engineer, has advised the last four presidential administrations on transportation and policy issues.

Poole is a member of the Government Accountability Office's National Aviation Studies Advisory Panel and he has testified before the House and Senate's aviation subcommittees on numerous occasions. Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Poole consulted the White House Domestic Policy Council and several members of Congress on ways to improve the nation's airport security.

He has also advised the Federal Aviation Administration, Office of the Secretary of Transportation, White House Office of Policy Development, National Performance Review, National Economic Council, and the National Civil Aviation Review Commission on aviation issues. Poole is a member of the Critical Infrastructure Council of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation and of the Air Traffic Control Association.

Poole was among the first to propose the commercialization of the U.S. air traffic control system, and his work in this field has helped shape proposals for a U.S. air traffic control corporation. A version of his corporation concept was implemented in Canada in 1996 and was more recently endorsed by several former top FAA administrators.

Poole's studies also launched a national debate on airport privatization in the United States. He advised both the FAA and local officials during the 1989-90 controversy over the proposed privatization of Albany (NY) Airport. His policy research on this issue helped inspire Congress' 1996 enactment of the Airport Privatization Pilot Program and the privatization of Indianapolis' airport management under Mayor Steve Goldsmith.

Raimund Weidemann studied at the Civil Aviation Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, joined ATC in 1984 and became operational as a tower controller in Berlin, Germany, worked in several international projects. Since 2001 he represents IFATCA in expert bodies of ICAO and EUROCONTROL.

In addition he is member of the IFATCA Technical and Operational Committee and is in charge of the IFATCA Airport Domain Team. He Currently works as a senior controller and examiner at Berlin Tempelhof Airport (Germany).