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It has also to be pointed out that in recent years the number of accidents or almost-accidents during taxing and rolling at the airport has constantly and very significantly increased, Googling for the above report I found texts saying "drastically increased". That is with regard to major Hubs and commercial traffic centres where you have no or low private traffic only.
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Ground control has always been a issue. I believe that ground radar is ineffective in tracking aircraft. It is all done by radio. Control Tower tells you what runway. Pilot acknowledges and makes his way to the that runway. Everyone hopes the pilot knows the way. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes when crossing a runway to get to another aircraft miss a radio message that there is a inbound coming on that runway the grounded craft wishes to cross. Problems ensue! Yes, it can as ugly as a rush hour traffic snarl.