Measuring People’s Access to the International Air Transport System.
ICAO’s data analysis team has launched a new web-based application (“app”) on the iSTARS 4.0 portal that enables authorized users of the Integrated Safety Trend Analysis and Reporting System to quickly determine the percentage of a State’s population living within 100 kilometres of an aerodrome. The “Air Transport Accessibility” app shows that “ 74 percent of the world population has access to international air transport ,” noted Mr Marco Merens, Chief, Integrated Aviation Analysis at ICAO. “For Europe, that rises to 90 percent, but for Africa it goes down to 64 percent.” The app allows the user to select one of ICAO’s 192 Member States and compare that State’s aerodrome accessibility with various groups of States – the entire world, an ICAO Region, a PIRG (Planningand Implementation RegionalGroup) , RAIO (Regional Accidentand Incident Investigation Organization) , RASG (RegionalAviation Safety Group) , or RSOO (Regional Safety OversightOrganization) , a continent, Least De...