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Amy Wilder
10 August 2026
New methodology targets individual intersections, not broad airport areas
Airports where the FAA has mitigated problematic taxiway geometry are showing 77% fewer runway incursions per year after mitigation, according to the agency’s fiscal year 2025 Runway Incursion Mitigation (RIM) Program Annual Summary, released last week.
U.S. runway incursions numbered close to 1,700 annually between 2019 and 2025, with a brief pandemic-era dip before reaching 1,758 in 2024. This is a persistent problem that regulators, manufacturers, and industry groups have been mobilizing to address.
The RIM program is the FAA’s physical infrastructure response to that problem. It traces to a 2012 FAA study that identified 140 specific airport locations with disproportionately high incursion rates linked to nonstandard taxiway geometry: configurations that research showed created pilot confusion and elevated collision risk...
