The FAA is making progress on initiatives to address runway incursions, and a June 27 report from the U.S. DoT Office of Inspector General offers several revisions to its current plan. Runway incursions continue to be a challenge for the FAA, and incursions increased by nearly 83 percent between 2011 and 2017. The FAA initiated a Call to Action forum in 2015 to address the increase and recently evaluated progress in implementing initiatives proposed during the forum. As of November 2017, the FAA had completed 10 of the 22 initiatives.

Completed initiatives include directives designed to educate pilots on markings, signs, and other visual aids at high-risk airports. A best practice list for airport surface and movement areas was also updated. Ten of the initiatives continue to remain in progress while two initiatives were canceled. Six of the 10 initiatives are behind schedule and the FAA continues to face challenges associated with full implementation due to funding requirements and technology limitations. The FAA has implemented a monitoring plan in an effort to track initiative status, but the plan lacks the ability to relate the initiatives to quantifiable goals or metrics that would measure their effectiveness.

The U.S. DoT Office of Inspector General recommended three revisions to the 2015 Call to Action monitoring plan. The first called for updating target delivery dates for initiatives still in progress. This revision includes initiatives without target delivery dates and recommended implementing procedures for continually updating delivery dates and descriptions of initiatives in accordance with changes. A second revision suggested developing and including quantifiable metrics and other indicators within the monitoring plan to better measure initiative effectiveness. The third recommended revision suggested consolidating duplicate initiatives within the monitoring plan.