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The United States has 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC). [1] They are operated by and are part of the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation . An ARTCC controls aircraft flying in a specified region of airspace, known as a flight information region (FIR), typically during the en route portion of flight.
Air traffic management (ATM) aims at ensuring the safe and efficient flow of air traffic. [1] It encompasses three types of services: [ 2 ] air traffic services (ATS) including air traffic control (ATC), air traffic advisory services, flight information services and alerting services,
In aviation, an air traffic service (ATS) is a service which regulates and assists aircraft in real-time to ensure their safe operations. In particular, ATS is to: In particular, ATS is to: prevent collisions between aircraft; provide advice of the safe and efficient conduct of flights;
An air navigation service provider (ANSP) is a public or a private legal entity providing Air Navigation Services. [1] It manages air traffic on behalf of a company, region or country. Depending on the specific mandate, an ANSP provides one or more of the following services to airspace users: Air traffic management (ATM)
The Air Traffic Organization is composed of 35,000 employees. [5] Many of these employees, including more than 14,000 air traffic controllers, 5,000 air traffic supervisors and air traffic managers, 1,100 engineers, and 6,100 maintenance technicians, directly serve customers.
The air traffic control tower of Mumbai International Airport in India. Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace. The primary purpose of ATC ...
Air traffic flow management (ATFM) is the regulation of air traffic in order to avoid exceeding airport or air traffic control capacity in handling traffic (hence the alternative name of Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management – ATFCM), and to ensure that available capacity is used efficiently. [1]
In air traffic control, an area control center (ACC), also known as a center or en-route center, is a facility responsible for controlling aircraft flying in the airspace of a given flight information region (FIR) at high altitudes between airport approaches and departures.