FAA Expands SMART Air Traffic System to All 22 Centers Nationwide; 180 Flights Already Rerouted
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on November 10 that the Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories (SMART) system, after a successful initial rollout to the National Capital Region in September, will now be used in the airspace of all 22 air traffic control centers across the country to reduce delays, reduce fuel consumption and improve the travel experience for the flying public.
SMART is a cloud-based system that centralizes 200 data streams, including weather patterns, flight paths, traffic flow and controller staffing metrics, into one platform.
A team of FAA specialists in the SMART center in Washington, D.C., analyzes and validates the SMART data and provides scheduling recommendations to the agency's Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Warrenton, Virginia. The Command Center then routes these recommendations to air traffic control facilities for local leadership to consider.
According to the FAA, since SMART started on September 21 it has helped reroute 180 flights, saved an average of 10 minutes per flight and saved an average of almost 80 gallons of fuel per flight.
(Source: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration)
Source: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
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Photo: 图：美国联邦航空局总部大楼（联邦核心机构固定图库）。 / Image: Federal Aviation Administration headquarters (federal core asset pack).
