ASAT Community Model
In the air transportation industry, there are many connections and interdependencies between and among airports, airspace and aircraft. There are also numerous ownership, responsibility and control models. Add enormous complexity and the unpredictability of economic and global events, and the result is a situation where neither government nor industry alone can define the answers.
Realizing sustainable air transportation, using the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) as a pathway in the United States, will require high levels of collaboration among federal, state and local governments, industry, non-government organizations and academia.
ASAT partners believe that successfully implementing NextGen – and creating a healthy air transportation system that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs – will require a massive collective movement over the next 20 years. This highly collaborative effort will require new leadership models in order to tackle the complex issues successfully.
ASAT embraces such a new leadership model. It functions as a public sphere in which organizations from three sectors – business, government and society – deliberately join together around compelling air transportation issues of mutual importance. A set of practices and principles makes it easier for partners to achieve results without sacrificing their individual goals.
Just as our air transportation system is becoming "net-centric," so should our leadership model. Using self-governance, the ASAT network enables its partners to recognize common ground and implement solutions to problems across segment boundaries.
How does this leadership model work? As a global community focused on achieving sustainable air transportation, ASAT leverages self-interest by facilitating Communities of Interest (COI) where, at a macro level, parties can discuss common goals and objectives related to the implementation of sustainable solutions. Problems such as capacity, the environment, aviation service offerings, and operating models are typically discussed within a COI.
From these discussions, Communities of Action (COA) are formed to focus, at a micro level, on defining and implementing small, manageable solutions to those identified problems.
Communities of Interest start teams called Communities of Action,
focused on near-term solutions to problems.
Communities of Action (COA) are self-organized teams of ASAT partners that focus on applying optimized airport, airspace and aircraft solutions that, when scaled, provide benefits to the larger system as a whole. As depicted in the graphic, each COA is directly related to one parent COI. The larger bubble represents an ASAT Community of Interest.
Because ASAT is a network, there may be relationships among the various communities. For example, the Implementation Community of Interest is connected to the Sustainability Community of Interest in order to ensure that the architected solutions are sustainable.
Maintaining communications and collaboration across this network of community relationships builds toward the vision and mission of ASAT. These relationships develop and rapidly communicate the processes and procedures, lessons learned, scalability, business models and common understanding necessary to help accelerate the implementation of NextGen and sustainable air transportation. Initiating, arranging, stabilizing, integrating and managing the community relationships are part of the value proposition of ASAT.
Leaders are coming together as equals to develop plans of action. Learn about the Communities that ASAT's partners have already established.