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The article mentions Washington National Airport and Dulles International Airport with a focus on solving the problems of safety and traffic flow at major airports in the United States. Solutions to airport congestion include expanding peak-load capacity by building more airports, improving air traffic control by implementing the National Airspace System, and allocating landing and flight space by fiat rationing. The locational dimension of traffic patterns, passengers' preferences, role of ticket prices in relation to airport use, effect of price differentials on distribution of demand, recommendations of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the FAA Bureau of National Capitol Airports are mentioned.

We present a simple and easily calculated expression for the Shapley value whenever the characteristic function is a "cost" function with the property that the cost of any subset of players is equal to the cost of the "largest" player in that subset. It turns out that a simple rule previously proposed for calculating airport landing charges generates precisely the Shapley value for an appropriately defined game. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]