Pathway Guidance System is:
a surface movement guidance system for airport traffic of a continuous row of one or more identifiers extending along the route on the airport pathways to convey information and position on the airport surface.
- A patented method of marking airport pavement surfaces to safely guide pilots and service personnel to and from taxiways and other on-airport destinations
- Supplements current taxiway markings to further eliminate the occurrence of incursions
- Simple, low tech system of pavement markings and identifiers
- Works with all other guidance systems
- Easily understood identifiers to ensure aircraft use the correct pathway to reduce and eliminate taxiway and runway incursions
Pathway Guidance Identifiers
- Identifiers are defined as information-bearing symbols and can be color- coded, alpha, numeric, or any symbol capable of conveying information.
- Identifiers are spaced apart so that no matter where a vehicle is located on the airfield pathway, at least one indicator is visible to the vehicle operator.
Why Surface Identifiers?
- With your eyes looking outside the aircraft, you are more in touch with the environment.
- Accelerated use of surface markings is currently #2 on ALPA’s Action Plan to reduce runway incursions
- Pathway surface identifiers remove ambiguity.