Moving Metrics: A Performance-Oriented View of the Aviation Infrastructure, was held January 27–30, 2004 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, Calif.

This conference brought together academic researchers, consultants, users, and government officials to consider technical and organizational aspects of the FAA’s transition toward a performance-based organization. In a series of plenary sessions, participants engaged in discussion and gave formal presentations on key dimensions of aviation infrastructure performance, including:
• the latest thinking on how performance should be conceptualized, defined, and measured;
• ongoing initiatives to improve performance;
• performance trends; and
• comparisons with non-aviation sectors.

Much of the program was organized in terms of key dimensions of performance, including safety, capacity and delay, predictability, efficiency and productivity, and end-user metrics. The conference presented opportunities for those specializing in various dimensions of performance to exchange ideas and information. Participants left the conference with a broader perspective on how their own programs and work contribute to and affect the performance of the National Airspace System, new insights on how these contributions can be measured and documented, recognition of near- and longer-term opportunities for improving NAS performance, and heightened awareness of their participation in a challenging, vast, and vitally important enterprise.

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