Air Transportation Policy and Administration at the Millennium

In: The review of policy research: RPR ; the politics and policy of science and technology ; journal of the Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, Volume 19, Issue 2, p. 109-127

Abstract

This article examines air transportation policy & administration at the millennium. It analyzes major problem areas & focuses on issues that have to be dealt with to streamline the policy & administration in the field as it becomes more integrated in our increasingly intermodal transportation system. The first part of the article sets the stage for the changes experienced after deregulation: It utilizes an analytical model to examine: airports; airline industry management; terrorism & security; & safety, equipment & human resources. The second part of the article focuses more specifically on a policy & administration analysis itself. It demonstrates how we have evolved into a customer model more aligned with the marketplace, efficiency, & risk taking; while moving away from a safer & less entrepreneurial period identified as the citizen model period. With the change of models, we find trust diminished. Passengers become more disenchanted & cynical, to the point of organizing through elected officials to promote an airline passenger bill of rights & reform the system. 1 Figure, 30 References. Adapted from the source document.