| The goal of a business or corporation is to make a | | | | research and development to streamline and prevent |
| profit and to do so they must perform a desired | | | | delays and more efficiency amongst airlines even if |
| service or make a needed or desired product that the | | | | the weather causes too much stacking. Also |
| customer or consumer is willing to impart a unit of | | | | point-to-point strategies will move more people and |
| trade for; a dollar or many dollars you see? When fuel | | | | freight in more direct routing, meaning greater |
| prices go up in the transportation sector business must | | | | efficiency; Future projects like NASA STATS and |
| find ways to pass on these costs and streamline their | | | | Future Flight make sense too. |
| operations to do more, carry more, more efficiently. | | | | One very good thing we are also witnessing is the |
| This subject came up recently when someone asked | | | | hand-me-down technology transfers from the United |
| a moderator of an online think tank to explain. Here is | | | | States military into the private sector as well as the |
| the question; "Can we expect to see improvements in | | | | DOE Department of Energy Efforts to aid in improved |
| airline travel in regards to cost change or | | | | aircraft efficiencies, alternative fuels and better |
| fuel-surcharges?" | | | | transportation innovations thru many initiatives you |
| Yes we sure can for instance the ATM Air Traffic | | | | see? Consider all this in 2006. |
| Control Management and SimLabs NASA systems | | | | |