Wider Runways a Solution for Flight Delays?

Building wider runways for simultaneous landing operations may be one way to ease flight delays, proposes R. John Hansman, MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics. Runways could be 500 ft. wide and aircraft equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) could fly in formation...

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